Edwin Stanton

At any rate, in that film series you'll see that Burns chose to make George B. McClellan a kind of comic relief.

his vanity, his arrogance, his insubordination, his almost incredible, if complex, hatred of Abraham Lincoln, Edwin Stanton, and all the leadership of the federal government that he was commanding the army for.

Lincoln wanted a strategy in the wake of Bull Run, the disaster at Bull Run that summer in July.

He puts McClellan in charge of the Army of the Potomac, as I said the other day.

He'd have 90,000 in the field, 100,000 troops under his command.

And he came up with a plan that Lincoln hated.

Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, didn't like it.

Officers around him didn't particularly like it, but it was McClellan's idea.

Booth's Civil War finale appears to have involved the exchange of $85,000, an enormous sum, in 1865.

Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, eight other co-conspirators, and more than 70 government officials and businessmen were involved.

Some of these people were connected to the Union Army and Confederate Secret Service, with whom Booth was in contact when he traveled to Montreal, Canada.

Montreal was a headquarters of the Confederate spy service headed by Jefferson Davis and the British Secret Service.

Basil Moxley, a pole bearer at Booth's funeral, said years after Lincoln's death that the body buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, was not that of Booth.

That man's hair was lighter than Booth's and his appearance was different.

Researcher John Daniel found that Edwin Stanton had arranged for a drunk man to be found, similar in build and appearance to Booth.

This man was to be murdered and his body burned in a barn adjacent to the only road not guarded by the military.

Chilpenry repressed, etc.

At this grammar school my seatmate was Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War.

I do not remember meeting him since, but I remember him a boy delicate physically, grave, and studious.

As there were no Quakers at Steubenville, father joined the Methodist church and attended it with his family.

The plan was to make up a class which was usually instructed by some traveling teacher, the members studying the lessons at leisure times and reciting and practicing at a stated hour together, usually in the evening.

At the time I speak of, I remember as members of the class men of fifty and boys of thirteen or fourteen.

Perhaps the youngest of the class was Edwin Stanton, the well-known Secretary of War.

The oldest was a justice of the peace and leading man in the town.

He became famous almost overnight.

The North celebrated him, and he was brought to Washington to meet President Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.

And he used that to do something.

So, he argued, directly to the men running the war, that black soldiers should be allowed to fight for the Union.

But, I mean, really, the evidence is clear, and there is some good scholarship on this.

And some are older books, and there are a couple good books that have come out in the last 10 or 15 years that show he was part of a huge network of that there are dozens of people who helped coordinate the assassination, that there was tens of thousands of dollars involved, which in 1865 money is millions of dollars, that, you know, after the assassination, I mean, the police allowed them to escape the city that they had been paid off, that, yeah, a figure like Andrew Johnson and Edwin Stanton, who were the war secretary, were clearly masterminds.

uh, had their own agenda, you know, the kind of political power play, uh, the strong possibility that, you know, banking interest, uh, you know, big banking interest didn't like Lincoln, uh, had a motive as well because, uh, he had put, uh, it was trying to, uh, Establish more congressional control over the money supply and as far as funding of the Civil War.

And then, you know, when Booth, well, there's actually strong evidence that Booth wasn't killed in the Garrett farm, that it was an imposter.