Thomas Cross Tom Cross is variously identified as a furnace man and a doorkeeper at the White House. White House records on the Lincoln’s staff are often confusing. In late June 1864, President Lincoln telegraphed his wife: “All well. Tom is…” Abraham Lincoln’s White House >

Anna Dickinson (1842-1932) Noted abolitionist and novelist who earned a living giving speeches against slavery. Her 1863 campaign speeches in favor of Republican candidates made her a Republican celebrity; she was invited to speak before Congress in… Abraham Lincoln’s White House >

John A. Logan (1826-1886) Congressman John A Logan so strongly supported compromise with the South in the winter of 1860-1861 that he was thought to be secessionist. His Union sentiments went unspoken until he showed up in… Abraham Lincoln’s White House >

Lorenzo Thomas (1804 – 1879) One reason that Thomas was selected to lead black recruitment was that Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton had little use for him. “Certainly Lorenzo Thomas and Edwin Stanton were extremely unlike in habit, temperament, and training. Thomas seems to have been infatuated with…” Abraham Lincoln’s White House >

John J. Crittenden (1787-1863) After Clay’s death in 1852, Crittenden took over Clay’s role an the chief old-line Whig advocate of compromise between the North and South. Historian Douglas R. Egerton noted that Crittenden was the leading candidate in the… Abraham Lincoln’s White House >

Peter H. Watson (? -1855) Lawyer in partnership with Edwin M. Stanton who in 1862 joined the War Department as an assistant secretary shortly after Stanton was named secretary of war. Watson’s presence in the War Department diminished the… Abraham Lincoln’s White House >

George S. Boutwell (1818-1905) Massachusetts politician who was a Free-Soil Democrat before becoming a Republican. He was an emancipation-supporting lawyer who was named as Governor John Andrew’s military representative to the federal government at the outset of… Abraham Lincoln’s White House >

Stuntz Toy Shop President Lincoln liked to take walks with his young son Tad. Among their destinations was the toy shop owned by Joseph Stuntz and later his widow Apolonia in a small two-story brick row house at… Abraham Lincoln’s White House >

Thomas A. Scott (1823 – 1881) Appointed Assistant Secretary of War in August 1861 by President Lincoln. As vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad in February 1861, Scott was called upon to take part of the deception that allowed President-elect Lincoln to disappear from… Abraham Lincoln’s White House >

Joseph Henry (1797–1878) Physicist who was an early investigator of electromagnetism, he became secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. In that role, although opposing the Civil War privately, he became a reluctant adviser to President Abraham Lincoln on… Abraham Lincoln’s White House >