he thought about his decisions. In fact, she even told him, in front of General Grant and his wife, that General Ord should be removed from his position. Another major issue that Mary faced was slavery. When she was little, her family had a lot of slaves. Coming from a slave-owning family, Mary wanted a few slaves herself. It's been said that "her southern sympathies were to an extent responsible for Lincoln's hesitation and slow movement toward emancipation" (Barton 335). After living in the north for over twenty years her opinion on slavery changed. Early in 1862, Mrs. Lincoln took action to convince her husband to free the Slaves and give them equal. Being a Southerner in the White House, she was always being accused of treason. Northerners thought that Mary had constant connections with the South and for protection purposes, she was not allowed to open her own mail (334). Throughout the entire Civil War, "southerners scorned her as a traitor to her birth, and citizens loyal to the union suspected her of treason" (Mary Todd Lincoln, part 6). In 1864, Lincoln was re-elected. Although the couple grew apart during the last year of the war, Lincoln noticed their problems and he was able to bring them back together. They were miserable mostly because the war. This all ended on April 14, 1865, when Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater, where the couple was viewing "Our American Cousin" (218). After Lincoln died, Mary?s life seemed to be over. All her life she had devoted her time to him. Now she didn?t know if she had anything to live for. She left to live with her oldest son Robert after her son Tad died July 15, 1871. A few years later, he had his mother declared insane on May 19, 1875. She was put into a private mental institution in Batavia, Illinois (Angle 508). She was a patient there for just over a year, until June 15, 1876 when she was declared sane again. Keeping to herself, Mary moved to Euro...
