in these perilous times, she wrote to mary todd lincoln that she hoped the dream would be a comfort tors. lincoln. this woman was not alone. an illinois republican declared at his state's republican convention in 1864 that the great man, old abe lincoln is a , special gift from god almighty and if we reject him at this convention, we reject god almighty. in his death lincoln almost , universally assumes the status of a martyr. the timing of his death could not be more prescient. shot by john wilkes booth on good friday, he died the following morning. from the moment of his death americans began the process of mythmaking about lincoln, making him the most exalted secular saint. when the secretary of war american stanton read the gettysburg address at a republican rally in 1968, he declared triumphantly that is the voice of god speaking through the lips of abraham lincoln. in 1890, shelby cullum praised the great hearted patriot. he continued, never was a nobler man born of woman and never throb a pure heart in breast. no man has ever existed on the american continent superior to abraham

robert todd lincoln makes an appearance in the 1880 version of the story. according to the 1880 version, mary lincoln's first exclamation after john wilkes booth shot her husband was this, his dream was prophetic. the author of the 1880 article that this remark has not been understood. it makes me think that laman could not have written the version since he claimed to be present the telling of the story. he would have known what the dream meant and what mary meant by that statement. no other source has mary saying his dream was prophetic when he was shot. in 1866, mary told herndon that lincoln never dreamt of death. there are other discrepancies, i won't get into them here. the most important is that he is nowhere to be seen in the 1880 version of the story. that piece concludes subsequently the dream was told to many in washington. i have done a digital sirs -- search of newspapers. i found that the ship on the water dream was reproduced in 1865 and got widespread attention in the months after lincoln's death. i found no mention of this funeral dream. if it was the talk around washington, s

robert todd lincoln makes an appearance in the 1880 version of the story. according to the 1880 version, mary lincoln's first exclamation after john wilkes booth shot her husband was this, his dream was prophetic. the author of the 1880 article that this remark has not been understood. it makes me think that laman could not have written the version since he claimed to be present the telling of the story. he would have known what the dream meant and what mary meant by that statement. no other source has mary saying his dream was prophetic when he was shot. in 1866, mary told herndon that lincoln never dreamt of death. there are other discrepancies, i won't get into them here. the most important is that he is nowhere to be seen in the 1880 version of the story. that piece concludes subsequently the dream was told to many in washington. i have done a digital sirs -- search of newspapers. i found that the ship on the water dream was reproduced in 1865 and got widespread attention in the months after lincoln's death. i found no mention of this funeral dream. if it was the talk around washington, s

lincoln. i think we all know he was very emotional. there was the story that someone sing for him "no one knows the trouble i've seen" and his alleged suicide moments when mary todd broke off their first engagement. he had great stoic character and did not show these i am just wondering, do you know of any scholarship that delves into that emotional side, that he did have. i have not come across a lot of it. and if not there because she hid it. that was very much there. >> i will start. that is about lincoln diagnosis clinical depression. the other

lincoln. i think we all know he was very emotional. there was the story that someone sing for him "no one knows the trouble i've seen" and his alleged suicide moments when mary todd broke off their first engagement. he had great stoic character and did not show these i am just wondering, do you know of any scholarship that delves into that emotional side, that he did have. i have not come across a lot of it. and if not there because she hid it. that was very much there. >> i will start. that is about lincoln diagnosis clinical depression. the other comment is that although lincoln is hard to read emotionally, what was so fascinating was that they spoke about loving lincoln. over and over again people right we loved him. they loved him as a father. people most often spoke of him as a brother and son. that speaks to his emotional distance. >> i have some questions on psychohistory. i am a licensed psychiatrist. i am bound not to speculate . you can look at what information is available and put into some context. i caution against trying to utilize information on someone who has been dead since 1865, trying to put that into a category that is 150 years later in term

lincoln. i think we all know he was very emotional. there was the story that someone sing for him "no one knows the trouble i've seen" and his alleged suicide moments when mary todd broke off their first engagement. he had great stoic character and did not show these i am just wondering, do you know of any scholarship that delves into that emotional side, that he did have. i have not come across a lot of it. and if not there because she hid it. that was very much there. >> i will start. that is about lincoln diagnosis clinical depression. the other comment is that although lincoln is hard to read emotionally, what was so fascinating was that they spoke about loving lincoln. over and over again people right we loved him. they loved him as a father. people most often spoke of him as a brother and son. that speaks to his emotional distance. >> i have some questions on psychohistory. i am a licensed psychiatrist. i am bound not to speculate . you can look at what information is available and put into some context. i caution against trying to utilize information on someone who has been dead since 1865, trying to put that into a category that is 150 years later in term