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When he was nine years old, Lincoln was kicked in the head by a horse at the Noah Gordon Mill and was knocked unconscious for several hours. [5] Other injuries or trauma throughout his life include almost severing one of his thumbs with an axe, [6] incurring frostbite of his feet in 1830–1831, [7] being struck by his wife (apparently on multiple occasions), [8] and being clubbed on the head ...
In 1835, a wave of typhoid hit the town of New Salem. Ann Rutledge died at the age of 22 on August 25, 1835. This left Lincoln severely depressed. [8] Historian John Y. Simon reviewed the historiography of the subject and concluded, "Available evidence overwhelmingly indicates that Lincoln so loved Ann that her death plunged him into severe depression."
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. [2] The second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, he was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln, an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk, to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638.
Lincoln would go on to marry Mary Todd Lincoln in 1842 and have four sons with her, but he'd be plagued by bouts of depression throughout his life, even while he was in the White House during the ...
The poem was published in the Sangamo Journal, [2] a newspaper in which Lincoln had previously published other works. The poem uses a similar meter, sync, dictation and tone with many other poems published by Lincoln and according to Richard Miller, the man who discovered the poem, the theme of the interplay between rationality and madness is "especially Lincolnian in spirit". [3]
After studying the text and concluding that the poem was composed by Lincoln, he announced his discovery in a 2004 newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Lincoln scholars are still split on the authenticity of the poem. The poem is in the form of a suicide note, written by a man about to kill himself on the banks of the Sangamo River.
Debates over Abraham Lincoln's private life have lingered for years, but the upcoming documentary Lover of Men, hitting theaters Sept. 6, takes the conversation to new heights.
In the new documentary “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln,” director Shaun Peterson tackles decades’ worth of speculation about the sexual orientation of the towering 16th ...