Tide Turns Case 3
2nd Inaugural
The Last Bust?
Martin Milmore’s sculpture of Lincoln was possibly the last image of the president. Milmore excelled in the arts at a very young age. At age 21, he sculpted the president’s bust above in early 1865. He would later go on to sculpt Ulysses S. Grant and many Civil War monuments depicting soldiers and sailors, especially in Massachusetts.
“With Malice Toward None”
Lincoln’s final words in his Second Inaugural Address encourages listeners, after the Civil War, to come together as a nation and work towards unity with a spirit of forgiveness. This letter shows Lincoln’s enactment of that sentiment. The daughter of John W. Boughman, a southerner who remained loyal under Lincoln, gave the President this letter, requesting that her father be allowed to return to his home in Frederick, Maryland. Lincoln concurred, as he did in many such cases.