Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, writes in his diary, “God wills this contest [the War of Federal Aggression].”
[added 4/15/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.
Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Tennessee, occupies Atlanta, Georgia.
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References:
“Meditation on the Divine Will,” Abraham Lincoln, Collected Works, edited by Roy P. Basler, seven volumes, (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 5:210, 211.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 183.
“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 2 September 2009, News:3.
The Real Lincoln—LewRockwell.com.htm
www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/thomas-dilorenzo/the-real-lincoln-2/
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