Abraham Lincoln's cabinet . 814-1869)Secretary of War under Lincoln. , , War Dept., Washington, Feb. 24, 1865. ToRev. Henry Ward Beecher, noted Congrega-tionalist clergyman. Fine war letter, askinghim to go to Charleston. . Your idea ofraising the flag over a Colored School, and mak-ing our banner the banner of civilization is in-deed a noble one ... It was another signal in-stance of how this war is guided by Divinewisdom that the braggarts of Charleston fledwithout a blow ... & that a negro regimentwas the first occupying force . . We receivedthis morning the news of the Capture
Abraham Lincoln's cabinet . 814-1869)Secretary of War under Lincoln. , , War Dept., Washington, Feb. 24, 1865. ToRev. Henry Ward Beecher, noted Congrega-tionalist clergyman. Fine war letter, askinghim to go to Charleston. . Your idea ofraising the flag over a Colored School, and mak-ing our banner the banner of civilization is in-deed a noble one ... It was another signal in-stance of how this war is guided by Divinewisdom that the braggarts of Charleston fledwithout a blow ... & that a negro regimentwas the first occupying force . . We receivedthis morning the news of the Capture of Wil-mington yesterday. Surely the end cannot beafar off, etc. $ rj(v CtH ? k^- v i STANTON, EDWIN M. See. of , one page, March 15 1862. The war % *pressure is apparent in Stantons words 4, 9. . The pressure on my department is so / « % Wgreat that I shall not be able to leave it and V>/1 therefore pray you to excuse me. Fine Jcondition. [941 $ Chicago Sun-TimesChicago, KUPS COLUMN Many Lincoln scholars are turning blue andgray in their rage over CBS-TVs The LincolnXlurder Trial, presented last Saturday feel the show, in implicating Sec. of WarStanton with Lincolns assassination, toyed withTruth, capital T, and failed to exercise theresponsibility so necessary in dealing with his-KUPCINET tory But the Lincoln authority who should have been most disturbed, Chicagoan Otto Eisenschiml, is limit-ing his comment to, It was a darn good show, period. Eisen-schiml did considerable original research on the assassination olAbe Lincoln and his book, Why Lincoln Was Murdered, is amajor contribution to Lincolniana. THE LINCOLN MURDER TRIAL was based on a book,The Web of Conspiracy, by Theodore Roscoe, who used muchof Eisenschimls original research and gave him credit. The Vshow however, failed to recognize Eisenschiml and went a lotfarther than he did. The TV show, while excellent drama, un-fortunately took undue liberties with truth. Eis
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