Lincoln and Benito Juarez

On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States.

According to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, President Lincoln and Mexican President Benito Juárez established a cross border friendship during trying times for both nations. It is not known exactly when Juárez came to Lincoln's attention, but in 1861, Lincoln sent him a message expressing hope "for the liberty of .. your government and its people.” The bond between the two leaders was strengthened when Lincoln supported Juárez’s resistance efforts against France, which had invaded Mexico and captured Mexico City in 1863.

President Juárez helped President Lincoln through his commitment to refuse support to the Confederate states.

“The values of freedom and democracy, which Lincoln so eloquently articulated, are immutable – and universal,” said Eileen Mackevich, ALBF executive director said in a press release. “Juárez valiantly fought for the same values in Mexico at the same time Lincoln was fighting for them in the United States. That’s a large part of why these two men are linked in popular memory."

There are several statues of Lincoln in Latin America, including:  in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico dedicated in 1966; and a statue in Tijuana, Mexico showing Lincoln destroying the chains of slavery.  There is also a bust of Lincoln located in Havana Cuba.

World of Civil Warcraft--YES!

So--why is there no World of Civil Warcraft?


Horde & Alliance? Yankees & Rebels!!


Astaroth? Virginia!!


Come on, folks! Help me out here!

Getting My Period

I really love different typefaces and fonts. Having access to so many strange and wonderful groups of expressive and artistic alphabets is one of the best things about computers.


That said. I have been making a terrible error here (and there) for years. I learned to TYPE--I did not learn to input. The rules are different, especially about periods.


Who knew that there was only one space between an end marking and the capital letter of the next sentence? Or I should ask, who knew and neglected to tell me? 


Finally, Chris of emergingcivilwar.com let me in on it. Then I read my copy of A Manual for Writers by Kate Turabian, and she mentions it as well. Once. In a small place. With no fanfare. Did I say "once?" 


Now I toss & turn, wondering just what else is missing from my life. 


Someone! Please! Tell me!! (. . . and no mentioning excessive exclamation points!)

The John Hay Library

This is getting interesting! I found out from the friendly librarian in Springfield, IL that Brown University, in Rhode Island, has the largest collection of EE letters going. So, I guess I have to go to Providence, RI at some point.  


I had planned to try to go to Springfield this summer, and may still be able to afford it, if the checks for a variety of things I have done come through.


DONATIONS GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED, btw.


The way this seems to be going, I will become the world's greatest expert on Colonel Ellsworth. He is my book, most of my Master's thesis (I hope!) and now I may have to do a book on his letters.  


That way, fifty years from now, when the next writer falls for EE, there will be a lot more out there.

Other Elmer Ellsworths

The baseball player to the left is Elmer Ellsworth Smith, Major League Baseball Player. He was a left handed pitcher and outfielder, making his debut for the Cincinnati Red Stockings on September 10, 1886.


For 14 seasons he played for the Cincinnati Red Stockings, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants and Boston Beaneaters, 1886 to 1901. 


He ended his career with 75 wins, 57 loss, 9 shutouts, 525 strikeouts and batted 57 home runs, 1456 hits, 665 runs batted in with a .310 batting average.


An excellent man to carry our Colonel's legacy.