[Aurelius]

"As Lincoln biographer David Donald has written, 'Under the protection of Federal bayonets, New York went Republican by seven thousand votes'... in the 1864 election".

The source for the Donald quote is: "Lincoln Reconsidered" Vintage Books, 1961, p. 81.

[WhiskeyPapa]

"As Lincoln biographer David Donald has written, 'Under the protection of Federal bayonets, New York went Republican by seven thousand votes'... in the 1864 election".

The source for the Donald quote is: "Lincoln Reconsidered" Vintage Books, 1961, p. 81.

That is still a secondary source, but it better than nothing. It remains to be seen if it will stand up to the type of scrutiny that is putting Dilorenzo's credibility in the toilet.

Walt

[mrsmith]

''Under the protection of Federal bayonets, New York went Republican by seven thousand votes'... in the 1864 election". '

Considering the hundreds of people his army had to kill there in the 1863 Draft Riots, that was quite a change of attitude in the New Yorkers.

(Nah, I'm not getting into these threads....)