"President Lincoln's Early Civil War Decisions,"
Lincoln Chapel of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church on Saturday, July 9th, 10:00-12:00

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The event commemorated the 150th anniversry of Lincoln's Message to a Special Session of Congress on July 4th, 1861.   The discussion was co-led by LGDC President Burrus Carnahan and LGDC member John Elliff.  
 
Attendees were encouraged to read President Lincoln's Message to Congress which included his positions on his decisions to provision Fort Sumter and reinforce Fort Pickens, his proclamation calling for 75,000 state militia to suppress the rebellion and for Congress to meet in special session on July 4th, his expansion and funding of the regular army and navy without Congressional authorization, the blockade of Confederate ports, and suspension of the writ of habeas corpus along the Washington-Philadelphia corridor (with rebuttal to Chief Justice Tawney's opinion in the Merryman case). 
 

 

Resources

Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

Message to Congress

Michael Burlingame's Abraham Lincoln: A Life

Chapter 21 - “A Man So Busy Letting Rooms in One End of His House,
That He Can’t Stop to Put Out the Fire that is Burning in the Other”:
Distributing Patronage (March-April 1861)

Chapter 22 - “You Can Have No Conflict Without Being Yourselves the Aggressors”:
The Fort Sumter Crisis (March-April 1861)

Chapter 23 - “I Intend to Give Blows”: The Hundred Days (April-July 1861)


 

Lincoln Quote

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. "

Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
January 27, 1838

 

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Mike Maione

For many years, Mike Maione was a member of, and friend to, The Lincoln Group.  But more than that, Mike Maione was a Lincoln scholar.  It is fair to say that Abraham Lincoln was his passion.  He studied what was known about Lincoln, researched what was not know about Lincoln, and learned what he could from Lincoln.  Mike also shared his encyclopedic knowledge about Lincoln with any and all who were interested, and with some who were not so interested, but who could not resist the shear force of Mike's exuberance.

The Lincoln Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Lincoln Group for contributions to Lincoln studies and/or the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, Inc. The Lincoln Award was created in 1996, and is presented each May at The Annual Mike Maione Lecture and Lincoln Award presentation.

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