Well isn’t it a reasonable question? Three hundred newspapers shut down. That’s a huge number by anyone’s standards. Surely there is somewhere that has a list of them and I’m assuming you would have seen it. After all you accept the figure as correct. Surely you checked?
IMO the historians who say Lincoln did curtail the press to the extent described above are correct.
If further research by competent historians prove them wrong then I'll of course change my opinion. Until then I trust the former.
They make more sense. There was a civil war in progress. It makes sense to me that the Lincoln Administration would not cotton anti-Administration rabble-rousers of any kind.
My original post was to express the opinion that I do not want Obama to be "another Lincoln." As the civil war raged Lincoln had powers that I do not want Obama and the Obamamobs to have.