Abraham Lincoln and religion. Mary Todd Lincoln (1895)
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tion. He spoke not to inflame, not to upbraid, butto convince. He raised his hands, not tostrike, but in benediction. He longed to par-don. He loved to see the pearls of joy on thecheeks of a wife whose husband he had res-cued from death. Lincoln was the grandest figure of thefiercest civil war. He… … Genuine Spirit Photographof President Lincoln In 1867, two years after Mr. Lincolns death.Mrs. Lincoln visited the photograph gallerv ofMr. William Mumler in Boston, Massachu-setts. She did not give him her name but wentincog., and sat for her picture under anothername. When she went to obtain her…