Then return to Tad’s story once you have finished with the second floor exhibits. Thomas Tad Lincoln (18531871), the fourth son of the sixteenth president, had a speech problem. Lincoln sent to Gettysburg on Novemabout Tad’s condition. Lincoln did not the President to leave home during this anxious time, and of course this added to the “weight of the world” that was already on Lincoln’s shoulders throughout the Civil War.įind and read the telegram that Mrs. 20, 1862, at the age of eleven, and Tad died of heart failure in 1870 at the age of eighteen. Ellison hopes the chest of drawers belonged to Tad Lincoln, the fourth and youngest child of President Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln.

Just before Lincoln was to leave for Pennsylvania to deliver an address in Gettysburg, Tad came down with a fever. Several tutors quit in frustration and ultimately Tad was receiving no formal education. Abraham Lincoln and Tad Lincoln Carte de visite. Some say this loss made the Lincolns even more lenient toward Tad’s behavior throughout 18. Lincoln on Augthe President wrote of one of these goats that had evidently been staying at the Soldiers’ Home: Tell dear Tad, poor. In a uncharacteristically lengthy telegram to Mrs. Nwillie (Center) And Tad Lincoln (Right), Sons Of President Abraham Lincoln, Pose With Their. In February of 1862, the Civil War was not going well, and to make matters worse, both Tad and Willie contracted typhoid fever and were bedridden for a time. These goats, Nanny and Nanko, were favorites of Tad’s who sometimes slept in his bed and otherwise disrupted the decorum of the White House. Arrives by Thu, Jun 16 Buy Willie & Tad Lincoln, 1862. Their father reveled in their carefree natures, and perhaps coddled Tad a bit due to a speech impediment that he had not yet learned to manage. Tad Lincoln was the fourth and youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd.

The two younger Lincoln brothers (Robert was away at college by this time) were known to be “unrestrained” throughout the White House in 1861, collecting animals, interrupting meetings, charging visitors to see their father and conducting other pranks. Photo of Thomas Tad Lincoln (1853-71) with his father looking at a photo album, 1864.

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