Proceedings in Congress Upon the Acceptance of the Statues of Thomas H Benton a
Proceedings in Congress Upon the Acceptance of the Statues of Thomas H Benton a
1st Sess United States 56th Congress
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It ma\- be that the fact that Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were both Keutuckians, born within a few miles of each other, added fuel to the flames throughout Kentticks and Mis. Soind and wherexer the Iventuckiaus had settled in large nundjers. The accident of their birth in the same vicinity con- tril>uted to the awful tragedy the element of feud, inherent in the Kentucky character. At anv rate, Lincoln understood the Keutuckians and Mis- . Souriaus better than any other Republican Presid...ent, and to the day of his death the\- had a warm place in his sympathetic heai t. More than all this, the border State men fought, whatever their rank. The onl\- instance on record during the entire war ol one field officer killing another in battle was at Mill Spring, when S/i7//n's of Thomas If. Brnloii and Francis P. Blair. 49 Gen. S])eed Smith PVy, of Kentucky, a Union soldier, shot and killed General ZollicofTer, commanding- a brigade of Tennessee Confederates. The only parallel to this sanguinary perform- ance in all our niilitar>- annals was the killing of Tecumseh, at the battle of the river Thames, by Ccjl.
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