Lincoln (124 page)

Chicago Historical Society

Thomas (“Tad”) Lincoln (1853–1871) and his father

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

Mary Lincoln dressed for a ball. The only profile photograph of Mrs. Lincoln, probably taken in 1861, shows her love for beautiful clothing and her fondness for floral headdresses.

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

The Lincolns’ White House reception, February 5, 1862. This was the most elaborate entertainment ever offered by the Lincolns. Upstairs, Willie Lincoln was desperately ill.

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

LINCOLN RECEIVES A DELEGATION OF PLAINS INDIANS

On March 27, 1863, Lincoln received chiefs of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, Apache, and other Western tribes in the East Room and promised to maintain peace “with all our red brethren.”

Collection of Professor and Mrs. Gabor S. Boritt, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

If the Indian chiefs were not entirely reassured by Lincoln’s promise, it was perhaps because they remembered that in the previous year General John Pope had ruthlessly put down an insurrection among the Sioux in Minnesota.

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

LINCOLN’S OFFICE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Lincoln’s office was on the second floor of the White House, in the East Wing. The painting over the fireplace is of Andrew Jackson. This sketch was drawn by C. K. Stellwagen in October 1864.

Western Reserve Historical Society

Lincoln and his secretaries. John G. Nicolay is seated to Lincoln’s right, while John Hay is standing.

Collection of Lloyd Ostendorf

LINCOLN ON McCLELLAN:
“He has the slows”

General George B. McClellan

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection