(08-02-2016 04:55 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Which two characters in the saga reportedly occasionally enjoyed a game of "mumble-the-peg*" together?

If a player "sticks" the knife in his own foot, he wins the game by default, although few players find this option appealing because of the possibility of bodily harm. There are many variants of the basic game.)

(08-03-2016 12:51 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Hint #2: The other person was someone from whom we know a lot about the Lincolns.

(08-03-2016 04:36 PM)Houmes Wrote:  

(08-03-2016 12:51 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Hint #2: The other person was someone from whom we know a lot about the Lincolns.

William O. Stoddard

(08-03-2016 05:17 PM)Anita Wrote:  Homer Bates

"Stanton had a deserved reputation for irascibility but he also had a softer side, as revealed by an incident reported by Homer Bates, who worked in the War Department’s telegraph office: “One evening, in the summer of 1864, I rode out to the Soldiers Home with important dispatches for the President and Secretary of War, who were temporarily domiciled with their families on the grounds of the Home. I found Stanton reclining on the grass, playing with Lewis, one of his children ..He invited me to a seat on the greensward while he read the telegrams; and then, business being finished, we began talking of early times in Steubenville, Ohio, his native town and mine. One of us mentioned the game of ‘mumble-the-peg,’ and he asked me if I could play it. Of course I said yes, and he proposed that we should have a game then and there. Stanton entered into the spirit of the boyish sport with great zest , and for the moment all the perplexing questions of the terrible war were forgotten. I do not remember who won.'”9" http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/residents-visitors/cabinet-vice-presidents/cabinet-vice-presidents-edwin-m-stanton-1814-1869/