Talk:Godfrey Weitzel

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BetacommandBot 04:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I removed the lines "...where later Weitzel would become hated" and "However, Weitzel would become caught in controversy..." because neither leads anywhere in the article. Weitzel's military service in Louisiana is later mentioned, but no elaboration on why he should be more hated there than any other occupier. Similarly, the paragraph about the settlement controversy fingers Lincoln as the controversial figure, without specifying any Weitzel involvement beyond, once more, simply being there. (I also edited out an extraneous line about Confederate participants, which similarly led nowhere.)

I did however leave "After Lincoln's death, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton refused to believe the generous terms on which Lincoln would have allowed Virginia to rejoin the Union", although it too is currently irrelevant, to give other editors a framework on which to rebuild the undeveloped point I deleted.

Although as written both of these passages interfere with the readability of the article, I suspect the original writer(s) referred to defensible historic points; if anybody wants to re-introduce and elaborate on them, they'll likely enhance the article. Cheers. Laodah 23:35, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

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