Was this Abe Lincoln Story 'Borrowed' from Oliver Twist?

Since President Abraham Lincoln often claimed to be a “story retailer”, and not an "originator", did he borrow two Charles Dickens characters and use them to make his point about Confederate General John Bell Hood? 

Here's the backstory:

After several rather idiotic military "decisions" on his part, General John Bell Hood suffered smashing defeats at Franklin and Nashville during his campaign in Tennessee during the last few months of 1864. The campaign (and Hood's blunders) cost the Army of the Tennessee - a force of 38,000 men - about 23,500 killed, wounded, and missing. As he was relentlessly pursuit into the deep South by Union General George “Pap” Thomas, Confederacy's Army of Tennessee ceased to be an effective fighting force. 

After being informed of the magnitude of Hood’s defeat, President Abraham Lincoln spun a tale:

I think Hood’s army is about in the fix of Bill Sykes’s dog, down in Sangamon county.

Bill Sykes had a long, yaller dog, that was forever getting into the neighbors’ meat houses and chicken coops. They had tried to kill it a hundred times, but the dog was always too smart for them. Finally, one of them got a bladder of a coon, and filled it up with powder, tying the neck around a piece of punk. When he saw the dog coming he fired the punk, split open a hot biscuit and put the bladder in, then buttered it all nicely and threw it out. The dog swallowed it at a gulp. Pretty soon there was an explosion. The head of the dog lit on the porch, the fore-legs caught astraddle the fence, the hind-legs fell in the ditch, and the rest of the dog lay around loose. Pretty soon Bill Sykes came along, and the neighbor said; “Bill I guess there ain’t much of that dog of your’n left.” “Well, no,” said Bill; “I see plenty of pieces, but I guess that dog, as a dog, ain’t of much more account.” [1]

President Lincoln concluded that although there were still pieces of Hood’s army left, the army - as a fighting force - wasn’t of much more account than Sykes’s dog.

Maybe - maybe not. What's your opinion?

This is another anecdote from Abe Lincoln, Storyteller.

Mac

Works Cited

FYI: The illustration used for this post was done by Frederick Barnard, an English illustrator and caricaturist noted for his work on the novels of Charles Dickens published between 1871 and 1879 by Chapman and Hall.

[1] Leidner, Gordon with an afterword by Michael Burlingame (2015), Lincoln’s Gift: How Humor Shaped Lincoln’s Life & Legacy. Naperville, IL: Cumberland House.