Friday, January 12, 2007

 

Lincoln in Richmond, 1865

This is a statue of Lincoln talking to a boy near a newish Confederate States museum at the Tredegar iron works on the James (the armor plates for the Virginia/Merrimack ironclad were rolled out there). It's an OK piece of statuary, but the interesting thing is the news nearby that Lincoln was in Richmond on April 4, 1865, barely 24 hours after rebel troops had burned and then abandoned the Confederate capital and 5 days before Appomattox. That would be the equivalent of Roosevelt touring Berlin a day after the Reichstag fell but well before the formal surrender. What a mensch Lincoln was.

# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:38 AM
Comments:
How could you possibly think I was going after Lincoln? I'm praising him. Good joke though.
# posted by Blogger Roger Fraley : 9:40 PM
 
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