julyanomsaway: historical-nonfiction: One of his most famous wartime photographs, this is Abraham Lincoln going over a book of photographs with his youngest son, Thomas “Tad” Lincoln. Tad died six years after his father, in 1871, of “dropsy of the heart” today known as congestive heart failure.

julyanomsaway:

historical-nonfiction:

One of his most famous wartime photographs, this is Abraham Lincoln going over a book of photographs with his youngest son, Thomas “Tad” Lincoln. Tad died six years after his father, in 1871, of “dropsy of the heart” today known as congestive heart failure.