Robert E Lee The Great Emancipator

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Although the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom was not actually used by President Lincoln, the late author Dr. Merrill D. Peterson wrote on p. 324 of Lincoln in American Memory: “When President Truman told his aged mother, an unreconstructed Confederate, that she would sleep in Lincoln’s bed when visiting him in the capital, she told him in no uncertain terms that she would sleep on the floor instead.”

Dr. Peterson's book is full of interesting information, stories, reminiscences, etc., and I highly recommend it.