Future Secretary of State John Hay, one of Abraham Lincoln’s private secretaries and a lifelong friend of Robert’s, wrote that, “After a natural outburst of grief, young Lincoln devoted himself the rest of the night to soothing and comforting his mother.” Robert was there at 7:22 a.m. He immediately left for the Petersen house, where his father, unconscious but alive, had been taken after Booth shot him. Several different people claimed to have been the one to inform him of John Wilkes Booth’s attack on his father at the theater, and Lincoln himself remembered only that numerous people came to him that night with the awful news. The younger Lincoln declined, telling his father that he planned to retire early that night. Grant’s staff, to Ford’s Theater to see a performance of Our American Cousin on the night of April 14, 1865. He was about 40 feet away when President James A. Rather, it was his close connection to three presidential assassinations in just 36 years.
However, it was not the deaths of his brothers or his mother for which he is most famous or for which he believed himself to be cursed. Sadly, Robert Lincoln was very familiar with death. At one point, he committed her to an asylum. In the years after his father’s death, Robert Lincoln also watched his mother, Mary, descend into financial hardship and manic depression. Robert Lincoln’s last brother, Thomas, whom their father had called “Tad,” died at age 18 in 1871. The death of “Willie” made the Civil War’s dark days that much darker for the Lincoln family. A second brother, William, died in the White House on February 20, 1862. One of his brothers, Edward, died as a boy in Springfield, Illinois long before their father became president. Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of President and Mrs. Robert was not present when President Lincoln was shot, but was by his father’s side when he died. A young Robert Todd Lincoln in 1865, the year his father was assassinated.
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