![]() ![]() ![]() Sitting in the cottage at a marble-topped table, Roberts explains how these women - who couldn't vote and were considered to be their husbands' property - exercised power in Washington.Īccording to Roberts, Mary Todd Lincoln could have "tremendous flare-ups of temper," but she was also smart and politically savvy. The recipient of that letter, Mary Todd Lincoln, is one of several Civil War-era women at the center of Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868, a new book by Morning Edition contributor Cokie Roberts. "And he just ends with the simple question, 'Shall they?' So he's in no hurry to leave." "The one letter we know he wrote definitively from here, he's writing to his wife, Mary, and says that the housekeeper and the cook have grown so cold at Soldiers' Home and want to move back to the White House," Carlson Mast says. It's uphill from the White House and thus much cooler in the summer - in fact, too cold for some. How?Ībraham Lincoln and his family spent summers at this cottage in the 1860s, making use of a retirement complex called the Old Soldiers' Home. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Capital Dames Subtitle The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 Author Cokie Roberts ![]()
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