Edwin Stanton

[RJNorton]

(12-19-2015 09:33 PM)maharba Wrote:  I'm not sure Ed Stanton ever did cease to attack Abraham Lincoln.

I don't think Robert Lincoln felt any animosity toward him.

The Stantons were invited to Robert Lincoln's wedding in 1868. Edwin Stanton could not attend due to business arrangements in Ohio, but Mrs. Stanton was present at the wedding as well as son Edwin L. "Ned" Stanton (a close friend of Robert's).

Regarding Stanton here is what Robert Lincoln wrote to David H. Bates (in 1911):

"His gruffness and complete absorption in the great work he had at hand were the most prominent characteristics to the public of course; but like yourself I knew personally of many things which indicated great warmness of his heart. I would not care to have it published, but I will tell you that for more than ten days after my father's death in Washington, he (Edwin Stanton) called every morning on me in my room, and spent the first few minutes of his visits weeping without saying a word."