2024 year in Review: #7
Did you listen to American Top 40 when you were growing up? (Or, conversely, are you old enough to remember what that was?) Well, put on your best Casey Kasem voice:
“We’re countin’ em down.”
We’ve at number seven on our list of the most-read posts published in 2024. And for this one, we have another post about Abraham Lincoln, giving us back-to-back Lincoln posts on our countdown. From April 14, here’s Kevin Pawlak with, “George B. McClellan Reacts to Lincoln’s Assassination.”
I believe McClellan’s exact quote was, “It was a lone, crazed individual who acted on his own in killing the President and wounding Major Rathbone and Secretary of State Seward. Now everyone move along – there’s nothing to see here, and all the evidence has been misplaced.”