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Willie Lincoln:
Everyone agreed that William Wallace Lincoln was his parents' favorite, and, of all the Lincoln children, the one who was most similar to his father. Thoughtful and bookish, it was Willie who took his brother to task after Tad smashed a White House mirror with a ball.
"It is not Pa's looking glass," said the older boy. "It belonged to the United States government."
Together with Tad and other children, Willie established a fort on the White House roof from which they fired salvos -- using logs painted to resemble cannons -- at Confederate Virginia across the Potomac. |