Talk:Edwin M. Stanton

He was? A justice, that is? But he was such an ass.

I remember one time when I was a kid I tried to draw his picture for a Civil War story I was writing. I did the ridiculous long-ass beard with the white down the middle. Then I momentarily forgot who I was drawing, assumed I'd given whoever it was an open brown jacket over a white shirt, and started legs coming out of the beard. I recovered by giving him a black jacket and scribbling black in a rough oval I'd drawn to encompass the legs. Glad I hadn't started with the arms before I caught myself, that would have been disastrous.

Ripping pictures off a Google image search is better.