I recently received a very thoughtful letter from Kerry P., who wrote after reading The Real Lincoln. “What drew my very personal attention in your book were your comments about General Sherman and Grenville Dodge [chief engineer of the government-subsidized transcontinental railroads). I know both very well . . . because my grandfather was the General Counsel for the Union Pacific from the 1950s-1971.” “My grandfather was a very good man, and we loved him. He was a Swedish-American and quite aware of he fact and behaved very much like Scandanavians still behave — I mean older gentlemen — mild-mannered … Continue reading “Lincoln Turned My Ancestors into Welfare Bums”