" I wondered how she was going to manage about the theater going. " So many of these have plain Truth running through them, don't they? And it was so baffling, how easily this Southern aristocrat, who grew up familiar with every ' name ' in the Confederate government because they showed up at family parties ( or the Todds were related to them ), was written off and schmeared as ' bumpkin ' in the Northern press. Married to the enemy-est enemy of them all, the Southern press sure did not fly to her defense. A couple of sisters, including one we still believe today ( guessing because she's so pretty.... ) skewered her and her marriage, interestingly sparing Lincoln.
This is one of quite a few, and lovely- they were ignored, mostly. Mary Hating was both lucrative and popular, a barbaric sport engaged in by Lincoln haters and lovers, each with agenda, so she had just no hope of winning.