General Irvin McDowell

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General Henry W. Halleck

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PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS SONS

William Wallace ("Willie") Lincoln (1850-1862)

Courtesy of the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield

Robert Todd Lincoln (18431926)

Chicago Historical Society

Thomas ("Tad") Lincoln (18531871) and his father

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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.

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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.

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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 rea.s.sured 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.

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