Lincoln lay dying, having been shot ten hours before. He breathed his last, diarist Mary Henry recorded, at 7:30 a.m. on April 15, 1865, with a "faint hardly ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...