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“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…

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.