Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

[Linda Anderson]

Linda, that is a perfectly chilling account that Mrs. Grant gives about the afternoon of Apr14th 1865. She later identified the pale guy who was glaring at her as John Wilkes Booth.

Incidentally, in her memoirs she wrote that Adam Badeau had exaggerated Mary Lincoln's meltdown at City Point which I found interesting.

Toia, here's the footnote to the City Point incident from Mrs. Grant's memoirs.

"...Lieutenant Colonel Horace Porter, who assisted Badeau in escorting the ladies, provides a discreet portrait of the outing in Campaigning with Grant, pp. 412-14. See also Personal Memoirs of W.T. Sherman (3rd ed., New York, 1890) II 332. Although Julia Grant objected to Badeau's account, her own narrative basically confirms his representation of Mary Lincoln's irrational conduct."'

This is Sherman's account from his Memoirs.

"The cavalcade reached the review-ground some five or six miles out from City Point, found the troops all ready, drawn up in line, and after the usual presentation of arms, the President and party, followed by Mrs. Ord and Captain Barnes on horseback, rode the lines, and returned to the reviewing stand which meantime had been reached by Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Grant in their carriage, which had been delayed by their driver taking a wrong road. Mrs. Lincoln, seeing Mrs. Ord and Captain Barnes riding with the retinue, and supposing that Mrs. Ord had personated her, turned on Captain Barnes and gave him a fearful scolding; and even indulged in some pretty sharp upbraidings to Mrs. Ord.

"This made Barne's position very unpleasant, so that he felt much relieved when he was sent with me to North Carolina."

https://archive.org/stream/personalmemoi...rd+lincoln

Roger's train timetables in Post 134 show that the Grants REALLY wanted to get out of town fast no matter how long it took them to arrive at their destination. They never really explain why.