Lincoln's Revelance Questioned by National Park Service

[David Lockmiller]

(09-21-2021 05:51 PM)Veronica Wrote:  Hello David,

I also am one of those that did not know that Abraham Lincoln had acted out of kindness towards the South by ending the civil War. His last photographs pictured an extremely tired man. Having visited the battlefields, being confronted with the deaths of so many, whatever the cause... In any event, he must have had embraced the peace.

All the best David hope you are a steady reader....
Veronica (The Pike).

I stay out of the subject matter of President Lincoln's assassination. It was Lincoln's life that mattered to me.

However, there is "an extremely-tired man" photograph of President Lincoln, of which you speak, in the book by Professor Stephen Oates titled, With Malice Toward None - the Life of Abraham Lincoln, (page 333). It is the famous cracked-plate photograph of President Abraham Lincoln made near the end of the Civil War (from which only one print was made). The caption reads: "The strain of war -- April, 1865."

This caption was also accompanied by a quotation from President Lincoln speaking at the approximate time to his wife:

"We must both be more cheerful in the future," Lincoln said to Mary; "between the war and the loss of our darling Willie, we have both been very miserable."