Robert Todd Lincoln

[Jim Klag]

August 1, 1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician, lawyer, Captain (Union Army), son of President Abraham Lincoln, born in Springfield, Illinois (d. 1926)

Robert Todd Lincoln

Facts, information and articles about Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln Facts Born August 1, 1843 Springfield,

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Here is a short video about Robert Lincoln, who was saved by Edwin Booth and the owner of Ford Theater was there as well. He was Edwin Booth...

Putting a Penny on John Wilkes Booth's Grave

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Grave of John Wilkes Booth

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

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Robert Todd Lincoln... His dad and Gettysburg... Lincoln cries?

Robert Todd Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Story”

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Robert Lincoln never forgot his conversation with his father after Lee’s escape. It was one of “several occasions” when the president, “in his desire to unburden himself to someone in whom he could have entire confidence,” gave his son “brief statements of the condition of things which were very much bothering him.” It was Robert’s “very great regret,” however, that he “kept no notes” of those conversations. “I ought to have jotted them down so that my memory of them could be more trusted than is now possible.” In particular, Robert recalled “a communication” from his father to Meade after the Battle of Gettysburg “which is most vividly impressed upon my mind but,” he added, “I never was able to convince Mr. Nicolay that I was not in error; he insisting that there was no record to sustain me at all.” Others, notably Gabor S. Boritt, have grappled with the nature and circumstances of Lincoln’s “communication” with Meade, but a close reading of the evidence, both available and newly discovered, makes possible a fuller account of what Robert Lincoln called his “Gettysburg story.”

 

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Robert Lincoln at Harvard...

Robert Todd Lincoln at Harvard College

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In 1859 when Abraham and Mary Lincoln's eldest son arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was surprised and disappointed. Robert Todd Lincoln hoped to be admitted to Harvard College but failed all the entrance examinations. To correct this, he spent a year at Phillips Exeter Academy, the famous college prep school in nearby Exeter, New Hampshire. There is no record of what his father told him at the time, but one year later Robert began classes at Harvard. A hint of his father's thinking exists in a letter to Robert's friend George Latham, who also failed the examinations in 1860. Abraham Lincoln wrote, "It is a certain truth, that you can enter, and graduate in, Harvard University; and having made the attempt, you must succeed in it."

 

[Matt McKeon]

I've been to his house. Its a museum, and has an interestest pullman car exhibit, and info about the pullman strike.

 

[5fish]

Here is another interest take Robert Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth share a friendship or relationship with a women...

Robert Todd Lincoln

The son of Abraham Lincoln visited Mount Vernon during his father's presidency.

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Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, visited Mount Vernon on February 8, 1862. His signature in the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association visitor guestbook appears above the signature of Lucy Lambert Hale, a socialite and friend of Robert Todd Lincoln.

Coincidentally, Hale is rumored to have been romantically linked at one time to John Wilkes Booth, who would assassinate President Lincoln three years after Hale and Lincoln's visit to Mount Vernon. In fact, after he was shot dead by his pursuers, Booth was found to be carrying the photographs of five women—one of which being a photograph of Hale.