Decapitation of the Union

[L Verge]

Let's see, after 1860, Lincoln presides over a divided nation, receives hundreds (if not thousands) of death threats, watches his military be stymied by ineffective leadership, loses his second son, deals with the bad press surrounding his wife, issues a weak Emancipation Proclamation and then has to press for a 13th Amendment to the Constitution to give that proclamation credence, deals with Peace Democrats, deals with bad press about himself... What have I left out?

IMO, of course "he went steadily downhill!" Who wouldn't under those strains? I will add that we can see the strain and the decline just in his facial features; however, the physicians conducting his autopsy commented on his strong physique.