The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters (Myra Helmer Pritchard - DLM) wax Abraham Lincoln often captured “his

Abraham Lincoln often captured “his best thoughts

this tale is told through their passionate letters and thoughts

But when events force Chigger and his mother to care for a wounded Confederate officer

This is life writing that celebrates ordinary people: not the grandees of traditional written histories

The fate of the Army of the Cumberland and the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation hung in the balance

The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters (Myra Helmer Pritchard - DLM) wax Abraham Lincoln often captured “hisby Myra Helmer Pritchard (Author), Jason Emerson (Editor) Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell mainly during the former's 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum. By the 1920s most accounts of Mrs. Lincoln focused on her negative