Again, I am writing about what these soldiers had to say about Lincoln because their regiment participated at the Battle of Fort Fisher.
Two other soldiers who saw Lincoln that day noted the president appeared "careworn," while another added "even to haggardness" and the other "troubled."
The tall hat caused another incident when it was brushed off Lincoln's head by a low-hanging tree branch. "there were a dozen young officers whose duty it was to get it and give it back to the president," Asst. Sec. of the War Charles Dana remembered, "but Admiral Lee was off his horse before any of those young chaps, and recovered the hat for the President. Admiral Lee must have been forty-five or fifty years old. It was his agility that impressed me so much."
--Old B-Runner
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