he loved to talk about general alexander fenech and schimmel. pfennig was the general who got a little spooked on the first day of gettysburg and ended up hiding under reports near a pigsty two houses away from where wendy allen lives in gettysburg. and for two days, he just, well, three days, he just stayed in the pigsty. so these poster boys important for recruitment but not all did brilliant carl shirts let his retreat wildly at chancellorsville and was brought up by the committee. the conduct of the war fought with hooker, but lincoln needs, these immigrants never more so than at the end of 1863, when he has to his latest annual message to congress the equivalent of the state of the union message lincoln is sick he has contracted smallpox. on november 19th in gettysburg, but he's got 15 days to write this message. and i think it's not in his handwriting because he just didn't have the strength write most of it. but what he says in it is, transformative. he wants a federal program to encourage an act to encourage immigration. no one has ever