[dfwgator]

Great article, well-written and sourced. Another reason why the NYT is, in topics apart from politics, the best newspaper in the US.

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

[nwrep]

It is a matter of eternal regret that discussion of the artistic merits of “Our American Cousin” will be overshadowed by the one unrelated incident that marred its showing in DC that one spring evening in 1865.