Note 49 — Chapter XVII
Reading edition
Dr. Johnson quotes this in his Abraham Lincoln the Christian, and with it gives a photo reproduction of this page of his manuscript, bearing in the margin the attestation of both Generals Sickles and Rusling:
"I certify that this statement of a conversation between President Lincoln and General Sickles, in my presence, at Washington, D. C., July 5, 1863, relating to Gettysburg, is correct and true. James F. Rusling, Trenton, N. J., Feb. 17, 1910."
"I hereby certify that the foregoing statement by General Rusling is true in substance. I know from my intimate acquaintance with President Lincoln that he was a religious man—God-fearing and God-loving ruler. D. E. Sickles, Major General U. S. Army, Ret'd, New York, Feb. 11, 1911."