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Mary Lincoln
Significant Others
The Misery of the War
The stress of the war and the death of young Willie of tuberculosis in 1862 did not help. Her moods became more erratic than ever, but she was still devoted to her husband refusing to evacuate Washington without him when it looked as if the city was in peril. When Lincoln won re-election in 1864, Mary was seized by a certainty that he would not live through the end of his term. She coped with this terror in her usual way, by shopping. Buying herself a thousand dollars' worth of morning clothes, she was either trying to ward off fate or buttress herself against it. Weeks later, she held her husband's hand in the Dark Affords Theatre while they
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