When I lived in Ft Wayne, Indiana, I went to the Lincoln Museum there. They have the American Flag that they cradled him with. His blood is still on it.
I am absolutely serious !!! He was very ahead of his time and clearly an independent deep thinker. The Gettysburg Address, his 2nd inaugural, and the Emancipation Proclomation could only have been written by someone who was inspired by a " divine " guidance. He was certainly a man who marched to a different drummer. His life was the greatest of all Horatio Alger stories.