From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
June 4
One day Lincoln’s two sons Willie and Tad held a solemn court martial in
which a soldier doll named Jack was found guilty of desertion, and sentenced to
death by firing squad. But since that would require his burial in the rose
garden and the anger of the gardener, the boys went to their father with their
problem. So the President of the United States drew out a sheet of Executive
Mansion stationary and wrote the following: “The doll Jack is pardoned by order
of the President. It was signed “A. Lincoln.”
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