Killing Lincoln - Nat Geo (Reactions)

[Linda Anderson]

I found an article in the Vermont Journal dated April 15, 1865 that states that Tad was with his father in Richmond.

"The arrival of the President in the city, as described to me here, must have been a curious spectacle. The party landed at the Rockets.- There was no expectation of the visit or preparation for it in Richmond. The wharf was deserted, and a carriage was out of the question. So the President had nothing left but to walk into town, a distance of about a mile. - The procession was not large, - consisting of Mr. Lincoln, his son Tad, who accompanies him everywhere, and Admiral Porter, one or two other military and navel officers, and an enterprising newspaper correspondent, whom the crowd undoubtedly took to be Vice President Johnson."

Also, the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond has a flag that is identified as:

"Flag brought from Richmond,
VA, April 1865 by President
Abraham Lincoln’s son, Tad."

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