Lincoln's Final Days In Springfield

[David Lockmiller]

Hope some of you may tune in and even ask a question or two (nothing too difficult of course. )

I was going to ask a question if I had the chance to do so.

The timing of Lincoln's departure from Springfield forever was obviously very close to his birthday. Since Lincoln would be gone from Springfield for four years at least and many of his old friends would remain in Springfield for that entire time, I thought perhaps that there may have been an early "birthday and parting" party with some of his old friends in attendance.

But Lincoln was very busy and very much a one-to-one person and so may have preferred such intimate meetings in seeing old friends for perhaps the last time. As I recall, he visited his step-mother in such manner shortly before departing Springfield.