tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534726392316232028.post1366503536026498413..comments2022-09-16T05:28:32.624-05:00Comments on Lincoln Buff 2: Southern Politics and Mary Chestnut today's Virtual Book Signing topicsAnn Tracy Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07858866489224167041noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534726392316232028.post-58312217184815625982010-03-24T07:10:34.427-05:002010-03-24T07:10:34.427-05:00Thanks, Mike, for sharing. Thanks, too, for your s...Thanks, Mike, for sharing. Thanks, too, for your series of posts on the President's "Lincoln quote." Your first stimulated a great deal of discourse and interest among my friends, Lincoln and non-Lincoln enthusiasts alike. Keep up the good work. <br /><br />I'll have to check out the link to the black spy info. Sounds interesting!Ann Tracy Muellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07858866489224167041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534726392316232028.post-9537565115051411562010-03-24T00:45:02.331-05:002010-03-24T00:45:02.331-05:00Ann: If you're interested in Mary Chestnut, th...Ann: If you're interested in Mary Chestnut, the following might also strike your fancy. It's a look at black spies who provided intelligence to the Union Army, written -- and I don't know why this is so surprising and fascinating to me -- by someone with the CIA's Directorate of Operations. <br /><br />Here's the link: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/black-dispatches/index.html<br /><br />I was turned on to this by Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog at The Atlantic, which (as I've said on my own site) has become an absolute fount of interesting and unexpected takes on the Civil War.The Abraham Lincoln Observerhttp://blogs/sj-r.com/alonoreply@blogger.com