Abraham Lincoln and the Eighth Judicial Circuit

[RJNorton]

Roger, I can't come up with sources right now, have to look it up first, but I read he was homesick and missed his wife and kids, and later when the railway connections improved indeed often did travel home at the weekends.

Eva, yes, in the later years this is exactly what Mark Neely writes. Basically I am curious about his apparent lack of visits home in the earlier years (1840's and maybe early 1850's; Neely writes that Lincoln could reach every circuit town via railroad by 1857).