Status Updates From A Tale of Two Revolts

“At dawn on 2 October, he (Lincoln) took O.M. Hatch, an old friend from Springfield who was accompanying the presidential party, on a walk up a hill from where the two could see the entire camp.
Asked what he saw, Hatch replied, ‘The Army of the Potomac.’ ‘No, Hatch, no,’ said Lincoln, ‘this is General McClellan’s bodyguard.”

A British official after entering Delhi:
“All the city people found within the walls when our troops entered were bayoneted on the spot; and the number was considerable, as you may suppose when I tell you that in some houses forty or fifty persons were hiding. These were not mutineers but residents of the city, who trusted to our well-known mild rule for pardon. I am glad to say they were disappointed.”
Jesus…

In response to his recall over stopping indiscriminate violence toward Indians.
Canning wrote:
‘As long as I have breath in my body, I will pursue no other policy than that which I have been following—Not Only for the reason of expediency & policy above stated, but because it is immutably just. I will not govern in anger’.
A reminder that even in the darkest of times, there will always be people of conscience

I’m close to halfway through this book and it’s probably 80/20 about the Indian revolt as opposed to the Civil War. That’s fine, it is interesting, but could’ve just done a book on the former without straining to find tangential ties to the latter.