Mary Todd Lincoln: tragic first lady of the Civil War
Aug 5th, 2007 by mathnut
Written by Mary E. Hull, this biography focuses on the First Lady during one of the most difficult periods of United States history. She came from a privileed family to fall in love with a backwoods lawyer and had a common love of politics. She endured the deaths of three sons, witnessed her husband’s assassination, faced financial problems, suffered poor health, and found her way out of a mental asylum.
















