Willie Lincoln plaque

[Susan Higginbotham]

I poked about and found nothing to confirm the story of Lincoln's visits. Alan Manning's "Father Lincoln" states that Lincoln visited the tomb. He cites the Miner Hill memoir, which I haven't seen but which I assume is the same one Terry mentioned, as well as the Diary of Edward Bates and Francis Carpenter's "The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House." Neither of the latter mentions tomb visits, although Carpenter tells the story of Lincoln shutting himself up on the two Thursdays following Willie's death.