In a message dated 27/07/2003 10:14:55 GMT Daylight Time, workman@dreamscape.com writes: > "The Government will not assail you." Dear Sharon, That is the one sentence that has worried me about Mr Lincoln. The (Federal) Government did 'assail' the South. It's Army crossed the Potomac and marched into Virginia. And what followed was just terrible. Yours, etc. Geoffrey Woollard in Cambridgeshire, England (with sympathies - and, hopefully, some understanding - for both North and South).