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A day or two after President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived in Washington for his inauguration, March 4, 1861, he visited the photographic studio of Mathew Brady. This image was one of several taken by cameraman Alexander Gardner. In the midst of the secession crises, Lincoln appears deeply in thought and is wearing the new beard he had begun growing after receiving a letter from a young lady suggesting that he do so. This photographic session was apparently for the benefit of Harpers Weekly, which published an engraved version of this image several weeks later.
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By GABRIELLE RUSSON Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON - -- The place where Abraham Lincoln spent almost a quarter of his presidency isn't elaborate. No spectacular gold decorations, no breathtaking architectural feats. Instead, Lincoln's Gothic Revival-style cottage was sparsely furnished, just the bare necessities, as his family lugged their belongings to and from the White House, 2 miles to the south, five months out of every year. For decades, little was known about Lincoln's historic summer
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President Lincoln's Cottage is located on the Armed Forces Retirement Home campus in Washington, D.C. approximately 15 minutes from downtown. From downtown DC, go north on 16th Street, and make a right on Upshur Street. The entrance to President Lincoln's Cottage is straight ahead at the end of Upshur Street in Northwest Washington, D.C.
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Where: President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home President Lincoln's Cottage is located on the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) campus in Washington, D.C. approximately 10-15 minutes from downtown. The entrance to the AFRH is the Eagle Gate at the intersection of Rock Creek Church Road, NW and Upshur Street NW, Washington, DC 20011.
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Lincoln shared beds with several other men during his life. Amongst these was an army officer, David Derickson, assigned to Lincoln's bodyguard in 1862. Several sources characterise the relationship between the two as intimiate, and it was the subject of gossip in Washington at the time. They shared a bed during the absences of Lincoln's wife, until Derickson was promoted in 1863. Again, some biographers have interpreted this as a homosexual affair. A recent study has ... pointed to homosexual themes in bawdy poetry written by the teenage Lincoln, especially a poem in which a boy marries another boy:
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Lincoln believed that the Constitution was adequate for all purposes. His impressive educability and his innate instinct for interracial decency led him, on becoming president, to envisage an improved as well as reunified nation. In 1862 he requested Attorney General Edwin Bates to specify the rights adhering to national citizenship. Bates's reply rested on Justice Bushrod Washington's 1823 circuit opinion in Corfield v. Coryell. He stressed mobility, a right no slave enjoyed. Lincoln's catalog of federal citizens' rights grew much larger after his military emancipation order in 1862 and his 1863 orders to the army to recruit blacks, especially recent slaves.
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