The Legend of Abraham Lincoln's Ghost

7.1: The Legend of Abraham Lincoln's Ghost

The life of Abraham Lincoln was filled with tragedy. The weight of the war-torn republic fell upon his shoulders. The anguish of a nation seemed writ upon his face. In the last weeks of his life, even after he had won reelection and overseen the defeat of the Confederacy, the sixteenth president of the United States looked like a specter of the man who had entered the White House five years earlier. Perhaps it is no surprise then that, following his shocking assassination in 1865, stories emerged over and over again that the spirit of President Lincoln still haunts his former residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.