Lincoln (123 page)

The President-elect grows a beard. In response to suggestions by Grace Bedell and others, Lincoln decided to let his whiskers grow. By the time he posed for this photograph in Chicago on November 25, 1860, he had a half beard.

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

Lincoln’s disguise on his night trip from Harrisburg to Washington. To avoid a threatened assassination plot, Lincoln made a secret night trip through Baltimore on February 23, 1861, on his way to the national capital for his inauguration. Cartoonists had a field day with his supposed disguise in a Scottish kilt and tarn.

“THE M
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LINCOLN HARRISBURG HIGHLAND FLING”

The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana (#439)

TWO CABINET RIVALS

William H. Seward, Secretary of State

The National Archives

Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury

The National Archives

FOUR GENERALS WHO CAUSED LINCOLN PROBLEMS

General Winfield Scott

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

General John C. Frémont

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

General Irvin McDowell

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

General Henry W. Halleck

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS SONS

William Wallace (“Willie”) Lincoln (1850-1862)

Courtesy of the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield

Robert Todd Lincoln (1843–1926)