[ml/nj]

That's not the "local press." That's the New York Times. The Times correspondent was THERE.

You can pretend all you want that people who referenced this report or ignored it entirely know better, but I just don't think that makes any sense.

ML/NJ

[jjotto]

Just to be clear, the New York Times was a local paper during Lincoln’s time. The New York Tribune (Horace Greeley) was the big dog then.

[DoodleDawg]

That's not the "local press." That's the New York Times. The Times correspondent was THERE.

And yet source after source repeat that Mrs. Lincoln was in Harrisburg and came down later in the day. I guess they're all lying.