Torn between North and South 💔 — Mary Todd Lincoln lived in the Union White House while her own brothers fought and died for the Confederacy. A family divided by war, a nation shattered.🎩 Mary Todd Lincoln’s ties to the Confederacy ran deep — and they caused her immense personal turmoil during the Civil War. Although she was the First Lady of the Union, much of her family remained loyal to the South. Mary was born into a wealthy, slaveholding family in Lexington, Kentucky — a border state wher

Cannonball in the Courthouse Battle of Lexington. #Civil war #jessejames | Jeff Schreckler