Tuesday, September 24, 2013

September 25, 1863---A family divided; a family grieving; a nation



SEPTEMBER 25, 1863:      

Having detached two Corps of The Army of The Potomac for duty in Chattanooga, President Lincoln, who is deeply in mourning for his close friend and brother-in-law General Ben Hardin Helm C.S.A., killed at Chickamauga, writes an acerbic and disgusted letter to General Ambrose Burnside in northern Tennessee, berating him for not moving his own much closer troops to Chattanooga. Lincoln, as was usually his wont when writing angry letters, never sent it on. 


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