later, i was going through stephen oates biography. he had written this. that night, lincoln tossed in fitful sleep. he dreamed of corpses on a battlefield in tennessee, guns flashing in the night. of crowds reading casualty returns at willard's hotel. nobody was cited, i think he took this story from stephen oates. the language is almost identical. both cited benjamin thomases biography. apparitions of dead in belated soldiers lying on the cold ground soaked in winter rain tortured the president's sleep. benjamin thomas did not have a footnote. i could not trace where he got the story from. i found that he had a tendency to try to put himself into lincoln's mind and figure out what was going on. capture a scene with some artistic license. he admitted to doing this on four occasions. i think this is one of those. what happens? lincoln issues the emancipation proclamation. he must've been thinking about the death on the battlefield. he took some license and wrote this story. stephen oates took it as a dream and the story evolves over time he even went so fa

royster did not cite anyone, but i think he took this story from stephen oates. nguage is almost identical. oates cited benjamin thomas's biography. this is what thomas had to say. aberrations of dead and mutilated soldiers lying on the cold ground soaked in winter rain tortured the president's sleep. the problem iran into here is benjamin thomas did not have a footnote. i could not trace where he got the story from. started doing reading on thomas and i found that he had a tendency to try to put himself into lincoln's mind and figure out what was going on. try to capture a scene with some artistic license. he admitted to doing this on four occasions. i think this is one of those. what happens on january 1, 1863? lincoln issues the emancipation proclamation. thomas was trying to figure out what must have been causing lincoln toulouse street -- lincoln to lose sleep before that. he must've been thinking about the death on the battlefield. he took some license and wrote this story. stephen oates took it as a dream and the story evolves over time he even went so far

later, i was going through stephen oates biography. he had written this. that night, lincoln tossed in fitful sleep. he dreamed of corpses on a battlefield in tennessee, guns flashing in the night. of crowds reading casualty returns at willard's hotel. nobody was cited, i think he took this story from stephen oates. the language is almost identical. both cited benjamin thomases biography. apparitions of dead in belated soldiers lying on the cold ground soaked in winter rain tortured the president's sleep. benjamin thomas did not have a footnote. i could not trace where he got the story from. i found that he had a tendency to try to put himself into lincoln's mind and figure out what was going on. capture a scene with some artistic license. he admitted to doing this on four occasions. i think this is one of those. what happens? lincoln issues the emancipation proclamation. he must've been thinking about the death on the battlefield. he took some license and wrote this story. stephen oates took it as a dream and the story evolves over time he even went so fa