Stanton dealing with Lincoln's death

[L Verge]

I believe that there was another incident when Stanton's first wife died, also. It seems ironic that a man with so many feelings about death would be in charge of the War Department during our most horrific dealings with death on the battlefield and in the back bedroom of a boardinghouse.

P.S. Heath - you will end up referring over and over again to Twenty Days as one of your chief sources for information. Just be careful of a few things that have been questioned and disproven by historians who came after the Kunhardts.