Abraham Lincoln statues

[David Lockmiller]

I thought that I would add information regarding the Lincoln sittings at the White House in Edward S. Cooper's book Vinnie Ream, An American Sculptor at pages 18-19:

The president gave orders that he was not to be disturbed during the sittings and Vinnie could recall their being interrupted only twice. The fist visitor was a woman of middle age. She was the mother of a boy who had worn the gray and who had been captured and was in old Capitol prison. To visit her boy, she needed a pass with the president's signature. He listened "graciously" to her story, Vinnie remembered, wrote a pass himself and apologized for the boy's situation. On the second occasion, a young pretty woman came in, blushing and stammering over her request. The president anticipated her and granted her wish, saying afterward that he could tell from her blushes that she wanted to visit her sweetheart. (Source: Vinnie Ream interview, Washington Sunday Star, Feb. 9, 1913.)