Lincoln The Tragically Short Life of Tad Lincoln

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While living in the White House, Tad Lincoln often attended plays with his family or a chaperone at Ford’s Theatre and the other theaters in Washington DC. On April 14, 1865, he was watching Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp at Grover’s Theatre (now The National Theatre DC) when he learned that his father had been shot. In the years that followed, he traveled to Europe with his mother, where he received tutoring to improve his education. In May of 1871, Mary and Tad returned from Europe to visit Robert, his wife, and their newborn child in Chicago. Shortly after their arrival, Tad developed a severe cold. Over the next two months, he grew sicker, and doctors diagnosed him with pleurisy, a medical disease that affects the lungs. By early July, doctors noticed fluid in his lungs, and he continued to weaken. At seven-thirty in the morning July 15 in 1871, Tad passed away, likely from pneumonia. His brother Robert later wrote about his brother, “Poor Tad was a good boy and extra ordinarily affectionate and firm in his friendships. . . .He was only eighteen when he died but he was manly and self reliant that I had the brightest hopes for his future.”
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