GDG- bounces his tall hat off the floor

[Richard M Kadas]

Please, don't take offence. However I'm unable to see any connection to GB other than Lincoln was President during both events?
  Dick

Dennis Lawrence <denlaw at fone.net> wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:



President and Secs. Chase and Stanton accompany Gen. Wool to landing 
place near Willoughby Point where troops begin march to Norfolk. 
Lincoln and Stanton return to Fortress Monroe, Va. Chase goes to 
Norfolk with Wool. Chester D. Bradley, "President Lincoln's Campaign 
against the Merrimac," Journal of the Illinois State Historical 
Society 51 (Spring 1958):83.

President remains in Fortress Monroe all day. William E. Baringer, 
"On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln's Norfolk Campaign," Abraham 
Lincoln Quarterly 7 (March 1952):18-24.

Discovers that troops commanded by Col. Joseph B. Carr and Gen. 
Mansfield are not taking part in attack on Norfolk. Infuriated he 
bounces his tall hat off the floor and dictates orders involving 
these troops. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Being for the 
Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers, 4 vols. 
(1884-1887; reprint, with a new introduction by Roy F. Nichols, New 
York: T. Yoseloff, 1956), 2:152.

Retires to bed between 9 and 10 P.M. in Quarters No. 1. LeGrand B. 
Cannon, Personal Reminiscences of the Rebellion, 1861-1866 (New York: 
Burr Print. House, 1895), 159-62.

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