Mary Lincoln Extra Credit Questions

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Maunsell Field, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, wrote about his experience at the Petersen House:

"In the hall I met Miss Harris, the daughter of Senator Harris, of New York, who had been one of the Presidential party at the theatre. As soon as she saw me, she exclaimed, "Oh, Mr. Field, the President is dying! but for heaven's sake do not tell Mrs. Lincoln!" I inquired where Mrs. Lincoln was, and was informed that she was in the front parlor. I entered the parlor, and found her there entirely alone. She was standing by a marble-topped table in the centre of the room, with her bonnet on and gloved, just as she had come from the theatre. As I came in she exclaimed, "Why didn't he shoot me ? Why didn't he shoot me? Why didn't he shoot me?"

If Mary did take her bonnet off at Ford's does it make sense that she would have taken the time to put it back on to go outside to wherever the doctors decided to take the President?