lincoln wrote a letter to marry about robert todd lincoln, their child. e medium concerned until he got a letter back that he was ok. 15 years later, lincoln sent a telegram to marry telling her to "put tab's pistol away because he had an ugly dream about him. historian richard wightman fox argues that lincoln clearly believed that dreams had predictive capacity. they were not revelations into the future, but they gave one a sense, however murky, of what might come to pass. i think this is a very good assessment of what lincoln's view of dreams was. one of lincoln's most famous dreams was depicted in the recent spielberg movie. on april 14, 1865, lincoln said this to his cabinet -- i had this stream dream again last night. we shall have great news very soon. secretary of the navy gideon welles asked about the nature of the stream, to which lincoln replied that it had to do with welles' expertise, the water. he described the dream. he was on a ship in the water some singular, indescribable vessel that was moving with great rapidity towards a sure. lincoln t

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 i

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 i

when robert todd lincoln who was garfield's secretary of war bliss saw in this national tragedy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for fame and power. he immediately took charge of the president's medical care even though no one had given him the authority. he just took it. he dismissed the other doctors and he completely isolated garfield in a sick room in the white house. he wouldn't even let him see his secretary of state. and what happened in that room inside the white house, is nothing short of horrifying. bliss and a few surgeon he had handpicked to help him inserted unsterilized fingers and instruments and garfield back again and again, day after day searching for bullets. the last thing bliss wanted was for garfield to die. he had too much at stake, but his own arrogance and ignorance were slowly and excruciatingly killing the president. the only hope for garfield was to find the bullet and the search, but this was 14 years before the invention of a medical x-ray. what happened next is nothing short of incredible. only the most brazen novelists would make it up. none other than alexander graha