close it in to support it. while the quote battle of fort steven was going on abraham lincoln not that far away came out to the fort and he actually got up on the pit to look out to see where the troops were. there were actually some sharpshooters who took shots at him. they did not hit him. one of the -- the story is and i've often wopd wondered whethes is true or not, oliver wendell holmes was said to have said, get down, you fool, meaning get down before you get shot. i doubt that that happened but there are people that said that is what oliver went dadell holm said. but he stood up here to see where the enemy troops actually

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we continue our coverage of symposium on the 1864 presidential election. thomas horrocks looks at lincoln's published campaign biographies which were wide spread at the time and outlined his qualifications and personal life. he also examines how public opinion changed throughout the campaign. the lincoln group of dc hosted this hour long event. >> so let me begin by waving his book, tom horrocks has written a book on lincoln's campaign biograph biographers. tom is the former director of the john hay library at brown university. john hay, of course, was one of lincoln's two secretaries. tom holds a ph.d. in history from the university of pennsylvania and is the author, editor of six books including "popular print and popular medicine, health advice in early american