A Letter to Tad Lincoln

As politicians and diplomats mourned with Mary Lincoln, a thirteen-year-old boy in Sandusky, Ohio, was thinking about the twelve-year-old boy who had just lost his father. Olin D. Wheeler wrote to Tad Lincoln on April 23rd to share his sadness at the news of Lincoln’s death. Wheeler’s father, an army chaplain, had shared stories about Lincoln and Tad with his family, and when writing of the loss Olin said, “I have thought ever since if I felt so how the son of such a father must feel.” Read the entire letter at this page: http://cdm16089.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16089coll38/id/3796