Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

[David Lockmiller]

Here are two relatively recent articles by Lewis Gannett taking the opposite position:

2005 -

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/262986...w=fulltext

I read the first paragraph containing the following sentence: "When she died tragically young, Lincoln, himself only in his mid-twenties, reportedly never fully recovered; hence, his famous melancholy."

I think his famous melancholy was the result of six hundred twenty-five thousand Americans who died in the American Civil War on the issue of slavery (not to mention all the permanently wounded and the effect of deaths and injuries on their families). As I recall, his life on the circuit with Judge Davis was not famous melancholy.