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At the end, did MTL have a sense of vindication
04-24-2015, 05:04 PM (This post was last modified: 04-24-2015 05:13 PM by LincolnToddFan.)
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RE: At the end, did MTL have a sense of vindication
No, Roger. I am rifling through the Baker MTL bio, Epstein's "Portrait of a Marriage" and the Levitt-Turner anthology of letters too. Stackpole was not on the River Queen and in fact had been dismissed from the WH long before City Point and the slapping incident was even supposed to have taken place.

Anyway, my understanding is that MTL returned to Washington a few days after her City Point meltdown, ahead of her husband, who went on to tour Richmond with Tad. The pretext that was used was that Lincoln had a dream that the WH had caught fire and Mary was to go ahead of him and check things out. There are letters and telegrams where she pleads with him from the WH to wait for her, in the Anthology.

So when was this fit of violence against the president by MTL alleged to have taken place? Truly confused now.Huh
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