GDG- bounces his tall hat off the floor

[Robert Lawrence]

Lincoln is always on topic in the GDG as is the cause(s) of the war.  

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<<Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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<<Please, don't take offence. However I'm unable to see any 
<<connection to GB other than Lincoln was President during both events?
<<  Dick
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<<Dennis Lawrence <denlaw at fone.net> wrote:
<<  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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<<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.
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<<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.
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<<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.
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<<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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