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A flag flies over Solders’ Home (at left)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Veterans Day provides an opportune moment to recall a spring afternoon when President Abraham Lincoln met with disabled vets from Civil War regiments. It wasn\u2019t his only encounter with injured soldiers. In fact, he lived among them for one-fourth of his time as chief executive.<\/p>\n

\"Disabled
Disabled Civil War veterans. (National Library of Medicine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Halfway through the Civil War, a chaplain at St. Elizabeth\u2019s Hospital in Washington, D.C., and several amputee soldiers from there were greeted by Lincoln in the East Room of the White House as an American flag<\/a> fluttered above. They got there, a newspaper reported, by \u201cstump[ing] it manfully\u201d for two miles.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll looked healthy, and fresh, and heroic,\u201d continued the story in The Daily National Intelligencer, a Washington journal. Rev. J.C. Richmond, it added, led \u201cthe noble procession [of] much enduring heroes\u201d from various regiments. As a group, the men nicknamed themselves \u201cthe One-Legged Brigade.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Regimental
Regimental flag of 150th Pennsylvania unit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the president entered the room on May 22, 1863, Richmond told him that \u201cthese maimed heroes, sir, are eloquent without uttering a word. The limbs that are absent speak more loudly than the arms and legs that are here\u2026.These brave fellow and I uphold you with all our might and will do so until you are able to put all rebellion\u2026under your feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a>
East Room of White House, where Lincoln’s body would lie in state<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lincoln replied that there was no point in giving a speech because the wounded men\u2019s heroism spoke more strikingly than anything he could utter. As the meeting concluded, the vets shouted three cheers for Lincoln, the Union and the Constitution.<\/p>\n

The president then shook hands with his guests, but he bypassed one of them, named Willie, without taking his hand. \u201cHe\u2019s not one-legged,\u201d Lincoln explained. But the chaplain rapped on the man\u2019s wooden leg and said that \u201cUncle Sam has provided this [leg] for him.\u201d The president quickly grasped Willie\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

\"Pvt.<\/a>
Pvt. Willard Cutter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Old Abe was very familiar with wounded warriors because he spent parts of every summer and autumn of his Administration at the Soldiers\u2019 Home, which is still located a few miles from the White House. He, his wife and their sons \u2013 as well as friends, Cabinet members and advisors \u2013 sojourned there for weeks to enjoy the more pleasant weather and get away from the press of business.<\/p>\n

At the Soldiers\u2019 Home, which housed wounded men from many regiments, Lincoln often chatted with the patients who were being medically treated. Nearby, a cemetery was filled with casualties after nearby battles during the War Between the States.<\/p>\n

\"Tad<\/a>
Tad Lincoln with his father in 1865. (Smithsonian Institution)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A prominent feature of the campus was a 50-foot flagpole<\/a>, which Pvt. Willard Cutter, a soldier from Company K of the 150th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, claimed was \u201cthe nicest pole in town.\u201d Lincoln\u2019s teenage son, Tad, found, scrounged or maybe helped himself to a \u201cbrass eagle for the top\u201d of the pole, Cutter reported in a letter home.<\/p>\n

Like a magician, Tad also produced a 10-foot American flag to flap above the veterans.<\/p>\n

(Next week: Another look at the Lincoln summer home. To learn more, go to www.lincolncottage.org<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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