Accident to Mrs. Lincoln.

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

The horses attached to the carriage . . .

. . . in which Mrs. Lincoln was coming into the city this morning from the Soldiers’ Home ran off in consequence of fright, arising from the driver falling to the ground by the breaking of his seat. Mrs. L. leaped out and was considerably bruised, and also received a cut on the back of the head, which bled freely. Surgeons from the Mt. Pleasant Hospital promptly attended Mrs. L., and the injuries fortunately not being serious, she was put into a passing carriage, and came on to the White House.

SOURCE: “Correspondence of The Baltimore Sun. Washington, July 2,” The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Friday Morning, July 3, 1863,  p. 4, col. 1