| Thursday, November 25,
1847-Wednesday, December 1, 1847.En route to Washington, DC. | The Lincolns leave for national capital. William H. Townsend, Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), 161. (They probably travel by stage from Lexington to Winchester, Virginia,
where they could take Winchester and Potomac Railroad to Harpers Ferry. From there they
could take Baltimore and Ohio to Relay Station, Maryland. Thence branch line ran to
Washington. John W. Starr, Lincoln and the Railroads: A Biographical Study (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927), 48.) |