GDG- RE: Getting a let up on Meade

[Smith, David]

For religious or mystical types, General James Rusling, who claims to
have been there, says that at this meeting, Lincoln went into a
discussion of the praying for the Army of the Potomac during the battle.
Sickles, true to form (and he had to have been in pain), was smoking a
cigar....

Lincoln's religiousity or lack of it remains a topic for seemingly
eternal debate (although it is fairly well supported that he claimed to
issue the Emancipation Proclamation for religious reasons) that it is
not worth going into here.  But it is interesting that at least one
individual chose to record what he claimed took place at this meeting
(At the recent muster, Ed Bearss also pointed out that this meeting with
Sickles may have helped sour Lincoln on Meade's perceived dilatoriness -
Sickles may have undercut Meade in his conversation).

David

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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:51:36 -0600
From: Dennis Lawrence <denlaw at fone.net>
Subject: GDG- Getting a leg up on Meade
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July 5, 1863

Lincoln and Tad visit Gen. Sickles at private residence on F St., where
he 
is recuperating from leg amputation following first day's battle at
Gettysburg.


"and that's all I have to say about that" Forest Gump




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