User:Jeffreyasharp/sandbox

10/05/2012 07:55 - Jeffrey wrote:

Robert Todd Lincoln was prevented from joining the Union Army by his mother until he graduated from Harvard. In January of 1865 he joined General Grant's staff as a Captain and was stationed at Grant's headquarters.(Lincoln Papers USG to AL January 21, 1865. And Horace Porter's "Campaigning with Grant" pp. 388-389.) Regards, JAS