House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War
For all the talk of the CivilWar's pitting brother against
brother, no book has told fully the story of one family
ravaged by that conflict. And no family better illustrates the
personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own.Mary Todd
Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between
the Confederacy and the Union.Three of her brothers fought,
and two died, for...
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