A dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary, using photographs, letters, engravings, and cartoons to look at their childhoods, courtship, marriage, children, and other joys and traumas of their years together, including their deaths.
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Backwoods boy -- Bluegrass girl -- The happiest stages of life -- Tumultuous times -- And the war came: Washington, 1861 -- This awful burden: Washington, 1862-63 -- With charity for all: Washington, 1864-65 -- Blind from weeping.