Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders

February 1862



The Civil War is less than one year old.



The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle.



Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.



"My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body.





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