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From editor in chief Marvin Olasky: Abraham Lincoln spoke about civil war as a fearful thing. A lesser-known fact: It was also a fearful thing to be married to Mary Todd Lincoln.

Lincoln’s immediate neighbor told of Mary in 1856 or 1857 chasing her husband down the street with a knife. Acutely aware of any possible slight, Mary was a jealous wife—but at least he could outrun her.

It’s also well-known that one of their sons died in 1862. Mary dealt with grief by searching out spiritist mediums, including one who took the name Colchester and pretended to be the illegitimate son of an English duke. Lincoln went to at least one séance with Mary and afterward joked that he had heard several spirits presenting contradictory messages, just as his cabinet members did.

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