Mrs. LINCOLN met
with an accident this forenoon. Her horses took fright and ran away as she was
riding from the Soldier’s Home to the city. Seeing her imminent danger she
leaped from the carriage, and was stunned and severely bruised, but no bones
were broken. Surgeons from Mount Pleasant Hospital were promptly in attendance.
She soon recovered sufficiently to be taken to the White House.
SOURCE: “Our Special
Washington Dispatches. Washington, Wednesday, July 2,” The New York Times, Friday, July 3, 1863 p. 5, col. 2
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