lincoln agreed to edwin stanton for the funeral train. here was a couple conditions, one no show be made of her son willie to the president, not be photographed. well, this hit the evening new york. stanton found out about it and he was furious. so he ordered all the prints and all the negatives of this photograph to be destroyed. this was located in 1952 by a 14 year old boy who was combing through the nicolay papers at the bollinger collection at the university of iowa. all right. this photograph came from louis stanton. so that's son gave it to john nicolay, who bundled it up in these papers. and they were eventually given to the university of iowa. so think about that. the man that ordered this destroyed couldn't bear to part with this cherished memento. so this is this is the only existing photograph that exists of president. now in new york, the new york herald estimated hundred and 50,000 people view the president, general john dix, who was essentially grand marshal of things while in new york city, estimated 100,000 people viewed t

one of them who was despondent, edwin stanton to the left the secretary of war. he was with rage. he despised mcclellan much someone allegedly said that he would favored the capture of washington to the return of mcclellan to command whether he really said that or not. i don't know. but he hated him. so there's there's a they're not happy with lincoln's decision. we thought we were going to get rid of mcclellan, but things are going to get even worse because it appears that the confederate army may possibly move into and order sent to mcclellan on september the third, saying there is every possibility that the enemy, baffled in his intended capture of, washington, will cross the potomac and make a raid into maryland or pennsylvania. a movable army must be immediately to meet him again in the field. who's going to command that movable? they don't say they haven't picked them. on september the fifth, lincoln will visit ambrose burnside and burnside command of the army and burnside will tell the he believes george mcclellan is the best to command this army. now mcclellan will stab hi

saying that either he gets 100% support in everything he wants to and that means henry halleck and edwin stanton need resign at once and people like joseph hooker needed to be cashiered from union army as. and the president said let me talk to my advisors about and burnside's is that if you talk to your advisors you won't do it and in truth he was absolutely right that afternoon he wound losing command of the army the potomac but the president then it as he wasn't fired he resigned burnside said that's absolutely false. he told the the henry halleck that that's a lie. halleck being the smarmy that he was immediately said, well, that's that's not my choice of words. you need to go talk to the secretary of war. go see stanton. and and when he went to stanton, stanton said, you're probably right, and we probably should change it, but of the good of the republic and that's all it. burnside backed down. so burnside never puts the president in a spot where he has to make a declaration pro or con because he recognizes that the president is in a precarious at the point where he's put out the simple most