Did Robert Lincoln Ride the Funeral Train to Baltimore?

[loetar44]

(01-11-2015 05:42 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(01-11-2015 05:24 PM)loetar44 Wrote:  Additional question: where was Tad? Was he with RTL or with his mother in the White House?

I think Tad stayed back with Mary. Dr. Wayne C. Temple writes, "That evening (May 3), Capt. Robert T. Lincoln arrived (in Springfield), accompanied by John George Nicolay, Lincoln's secretary. They were close friends. Robert immediately went to the residence of John Todd Stuart where he had been invited to stay."

Just read that early Lincoln biographer Josiah G. Holland wrote in his “Life of Abraham Lincoln” (published 1866) on p. 534: “ By the side of it placed the coffin of ‘little Willie;’ while the living sons, Robert and Thomas, standing by the tomb, were objects of an affectionate interest only equaled by the deep sorrow for their own and their country’s loss". This indicates that Tad was not in Washington.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln2/abx...e&size=100