Abraham Lincoln trolls Alexander McClure.

>[McClure](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Alexander_Kelly_McClure.jpg) recalled that once when he left [Lincoln](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg)’s office at the conclusion of an interview during the period of [Sherman](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/William-Tecumseh-Sherman.jpg)’s march to the sea, when for days the North had heard nothing of the position or fate of Sherman’s army, the President called after him and asked: “McClure, wouldn’t you like to hear something from Sherman?” >Tense with eagerness, McClure replied that he surely would. >”Well,” said Lincoln, resuming his work, “I’ll be hanged if I wouldn’t myself.” __________________________ **Source:** Thomas, Benjamin Platt, and Michael Burlingame. “Lincoln’s Humor.” *"Lincolns Humor" and Other Essays*. University of Illinois Press, 2002. 9. Print. **Original Source Listed:** A. K. McClure, *Lincoln and Men of War-Times* [Philadelphia: Times, 1892], 216. __________________________ **Further Reading:** [Alexander Kelly McClure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McClure) [Abraham Lincoln](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln) [William Tecumseh Sherman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman) [Sherman's March to the Sea (also known as the Savannah Campaign)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea)