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Re: Doubleday Admits It!!
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Pam

This Lincoln, Elisha Washburne and Winfield Scott triad I think deserves a LOT of Study. Remember that they were doing a lot of this in secret. Afterall they were ploting the overthrow of a governmental system of a republic form of government and institute a new form of centralize governmental control in order to achieve their objective of a more powerful federal government that could dicitate to the states. But if you read the letters of Lincoln to these two people alone, then read things like Doubledays letters, you start seeing more than just a passing relationship in these incidents. Scott took care of putting the right military people in the right places, and Eli Washburne took care of the political connections side.

What got me is finding out about the connection of Jessie Grant (the father of U.S. Grant) to those three, Lincoln, Washburne and Scott. On top of that Henry Halleck who replaced Scott as general of the Army in 1862. As you know Washburne was U.S. Grants' political benefactor during the War. We know that Robert Anderson was sent to Charleston to replace the popular commander at Fort Moultrie after Lincoln election in November and his 2nd in command (Doubleday) was in secret correspondence with the President elect himself. It wouldn't have seen right for Anderson himself to be in direct communication with Lincoln when he was supposed to be following the orders of the outgoing Sec. of War or President Buchanan.

Scott was able to make those assignements from people he trusted in the old army. It was no accident that Robert E. Lee was offered the command of the Union Army by Lincoln. Wasn't Lee one of those officers who was being tudored by Scott for command in the 1850's. Who lead the U.S. army forces against John Brown at Harpers Ferry?

The biggest reason most of this hasn't been found is because as you said it wasn't supposed to be found and second of all the old saying 'if it isn't written down, it didn't happen' blinds some researchers who don't want to step out on that limb of contriversy. But how do you solve crimes if you only listen to the stories of the criminals?

A good source is "The Collective Works of Abraham Lincoln' available online.

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