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Hours before she had witnessed her husband’s assassination at the nearby Ford’s Theatre, the First Lady, Mary Todd Lincoln was sacked from her husband’s bedside by an angry secretary of War Edwin Stanton and was sent to the parlour alone.
As her husband died nearby, the twenty-three year old wife wouldn’t be allowed to see him. It was just a preview of what awaited the First Lady after Abraham Lincoln’s death on April 15, 1865. She never saw her husband again after the assassination and struggled
to survive, which made her a laughingstock despite her poor mental health. Former president, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympatizer, John Wilkes Booth.
Mary Todd always had a hard time meeting the harsh expectations for women of her time as women, even famous wives, were expected to focus on home and not seek attention or appear in public, but Mary loved the spotlight and had great taste for publicity and this
created friction while her husband lived and disastrous after his death. The first set of trouble came in the form of Mary’s reaction to her husband’s death. It was known in that era for upper class
women to suppress their emotions in public but Mary who had already lost two of her son’s in childhood and was thought to have bipolar, showed her grief in
public and terrified onlookers with her expressions of pain. Mary did not attend her husband’s funeral and neither did the new president, Andrew Johnson pay her a visit or even write her a note of sympathy after the assassination.
This angered Mary who took her time moving out of the White House and even accused Johnson of conspiring with Wilkes Booth to kill Lincoln. She had no claim over the White House and as she left with a few pauses to argue with a group of prominent men
who planned to bury Lincoln in a dramatic tomb in Springfield, she became an object of mockery and finally settled in a hotel in Chicago.
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