Uses a scrapbook format, featuring hundreds of black-and-white photographs and illustrations, to trace the lives and experiences of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln from the time of their births through the tumultuous period following Abraham's assassination.
Content Note
Introduction : the Lincoln years -- 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, 1863-64 -- Blind from weeping.