![]() ![]() On April 14, 1865, a 12 year old Tad went to Grover’s Theatre to see the play Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp while his parents. This fine portrait is the largest example we have seen and a scarce survival showing Lincoln as a loving father. the fourth and youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. It looked care-ploughed, tempest-tossed, and weatherbeaten.” Horace Greeley observed, “his face was haggard with care and seamed with thought and trouble. The war years had taken a heavy toll on Lincoln and on the nation. This fine portrait does not show the heavy retouching evident in later printsīy this date the end of the Civil War seemed to be drawing near. ![]() As with all stories, I think the secret is to find a meaningful personal connection that also connects to children. Stories of inanimate objects offer their own special challenge. He married Mary Ann Todd and had four children: Robert, Edward, Willie, and Tad. He was born in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky, to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. It would be his final sitting for Gardner, who made five poses that day. Mining for Heart: A Transformation Invites New Life by Jessica Stremer. Abraham Lincoln (18091865) was a lawyer, politician and the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865. ![]() Just a month later he delivered the Second Inaugural Address, and within weeks he was assassinated. Lincoln sat for this portrait at Alexander Gardner’s studio on February 5, 1865. Lincoln did not note what his children were doing or had done.” At the age of eighteen, after returning with his mother from a two and a half year trip to Europe, Tad passed away due to. Yet unfortunately, he also died too soon. Tad was the one son who was able to enjoy time at the Soldiers’ Home (Robert was at college throughout most of the Civil War). Herndon recounted, “I have felt many and many a time that I wanted to wring their little necks, and yet out of respect for Lincoln I kept my mouth shut. The last son, Thomas (Tad), was born in 1853. Thomas “Tad” Lincoln was the youngest of the Lincoln boys.Ībraham Lincoln, an indulgent father, let his children run wild at his law offices and at the White House. ![]() Perhaps the most delightful of the Lincoln family photographs, this portrait shows an impish Tad leaning on a table as his seemingly bemused father sits on Gardner’s studio chair. Minimal wear and fading, two spots at the upper left. Portrait of Abraham Lincoln with his son TadĪlbumen print (14 x 10 in.), card mount. Lincoln, and when it is remembered that this calamity - for such it surely was - befel him at a critical period of the war, just when the resources of his mighty intellect were most in demand, it will be nnderstood how his affliction became a matter of the graves concern tothewhole country, and especially to those who stood In close personal and official relations with him.(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Alexander Gardner. A deep and settled despondency took possession of Mr. Lincoln mingled their tears over the cofíin that inclosed the lifeless form of their belovei child. Never was there witnessed in an American household a scène of distress more touching than that in which the president and Mrs. Lincoln 's fondest hopes and, strong ás he was in the matter of self control, he gave way to an overmastering grief, which became at length a serious menace to himself. The dreadful etroke well nigh broke the president's heart, and certainly p.n ufñiction more crushing never feil to the lot of man, In the lonely grave of the little one lay buried Mr. Death had chosen a shining mark and the beloved Willie, the apple of his father's eye, the brightest and most proniising of his children, was torn from his embrace. The executive mansión was turned into a house of niourning. In February, 18G2, this fond fattier was visited by a sorrowfiü bereavement. ![]()
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