Mary's Reputation

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(07-20-2018 02:56 PM)Steve Wrote:  I'm reposting this article from an Assassination thread, so forum members who have an interest in Mary Todd Lincoln but don't have as much interest in the particulars of the assassination won't miss it. It's a letter by Mary reprinted in a Scottish newspaper where she complains about the racist/discriminatory treatment of the families of fallen colored Union soldiers and sailors:


Source: The Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), page 3 of the 01 Sept. 1866 edition.

Hope I'm not the one who posted this on the Assassination thread because it doesn't pertain to that. However, I have often talked about this because I am a supporter of Mary Lincoln.

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(07-20-2018 02:56 PM)Steve Wrote:  I'm reposting this article from an Assassination thread, so forum members who have an interest in Mary Todd Lincoln but don't have as much interest in the particulars of the assassination won't miss it. It's a letter by Mary reprinted in a Scottish newspaper where she complains about the racist/discriminatory treatment of the families of fallen colored Union soldiers and sailors:


Source: The Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), page 3 of the 01 Sept. 1866 edition.

Hope I'm not the one who posted this on the Assassination thread because it doesn't pertain to that. However, I have often talked about this because I am a supporter of Mary Lincoln. And, just as an aside, she would not have used the term "racist." The first known use of the word in print form occurred in the 1920s, if I remember my research correctly.