Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1907 — Lincoh's Kindness. [ARTICLE]

Lincoh's Kindness.

One of the many examples of Abraham Lincoln’s kind-hearted nature recently came to light among the papers on file in the War Department. It was a letter from a young woman iu a Western State asking for the return of her sweetheart who was at the time a soldier in the Union army. In a pathetic manner she told how at the beginning of the war she became engaged, and how her lover had gone to the front promising to return at the close of the war and make her his bride. Over a year bad passed, the war continued, and her lo\fr was lying wounded in a hospital. The young woman said if tbe soldier in question did not return at once she would die of a broken heart. Whether or not the two lovers were ever reunited tbe department records do not show, but the paper bears evidence that the appeal touched the heart of the War President, for across ths back is written in hla own handwriting: “Let him go to her.—A. Lincoln.”