BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Ford's Theatre NHS (Museum)

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1. FORDSM_130105_046.JPG: The First Lady: Intelligent and ambitious, Mary was a woman ahead of her time. As a young woman she had displayed what was considered an unladylike love of politics. She and her mother [???] a political partnership long before the term was used. Moving [???] from Kentucky, Mary and her family mirrored the divided nation. The First Lady had one brother, three half-brothers, and three brothers-in-law fighting in Confederate armies. Her son, Robert, became a soldier i the Union army. With the evidence on which to base their charge, some in Washington claimed that Mary Lincoln herself was a Southern spy. "Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents." -- Abraham Lincoln "The Prince of Rails": Among their neighbors, it was widely agreed that the Lincolns spoiled their children. Both parents had unhappy childhood memories. Moreover, the loss of their son, Eddie, at the age of four, made them all the more inclined to indulge their remaining sons. The Lincoln's oldest, Robert Todd Lincoln, never enjoyed the uncomplicated affection showered on his younger brothers. Lincoln's political ambitions made him an absentee parent. By the time he was president, his eldest son was enrolled at Harvard. Lincoln's law partner, William Herndon, once described Robert as "a Todd and not a Lincoln." This did not prevent opposition newspapers during the 1860 campaign from lampooning the Railsplitter's firstborn as "The Prince of Rails."
2. FORDSM_130105_065.JPG: Mary's Confidants: Mary -- the daughter of Kentucky slave owners -- has as her closest friend in Washington a former slave and dressmaker named Elizabeth Keckly. At various times Elizabeth served as lady's maid, nurse, confidante, and grief counselor. Following the death of Willie, Keckly encouraged the First Lady to turn to spiritualists for help in communicating with her dead child. Mary consulted with Washington's leading medium, Nettie Colburn Maynard. Several seances were held in the White House, others too place at the Georgetown home of a friend. Eventually Mary came to believe, as she told her half sister Emilie Helm, "William lives. He comes to me every night and stands at the foot of the bed with the same sweet adorable smile he always has had." Mary's half sister Emilie was married to Confederate General Benjamin Helm. When he died of wounds received at the battle of Chickamauga in 1863, the Lincolns grieved. Nevertheless, the widowed Emilie was forced to take an oath of loyalty to the Union before she was allowed to visit Mary, following Benjamin's death.
3. FORDSM_130105_071.JPG: The Presidential Staff: Lincoln ran the war, and his presidency, with a staff of three young men who became his surrogate sons. German-born John Nicolay was a 29-year-old Illinois journalist and aspiring lawyer whom Lincoln made his official secretary. Nicolay convinced the new president that additional help would be required, which led to the appointment of 22-year-old John Hay, a gifted writer whose literary talents were employed in drafting letters for Lincoln to sign. Eventually a third clerk, William Stoddard, was hired to lend a hand with the vest presidential correspondence.
4. FORDSM_130105_158.JPG: Note the accumulated dark dust atop the leaves on the column
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