Annotation
[1] AD, IaHA. This speech has been the subject of much confusion. Nicolay and Hay, instead of printing the above text, printed a copy of Lincoln's reply on a similar occasion in 1861 (vide supra, February 26, 1861), incorrectly dating it February 9, 1865 (Complete Works, XI, 10). The same error appears in Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History (X, 142), with an appended footnote explaining that the text which appeared in the Congressional Globe and the newspapers on March 2, 1865, was incorrect, ``having apparently been written out from memory.'' The text appearing in the Congressional Globe, New York Times, and other papers on March 2, was inaccurate to a minor extent, but did follow Lincoln's spoken words better than Nicolay and Hay realized in their