Wild West – June 2019

Mary Lincoln, Jane

Pierce, Ida McKinley,

or Lucretia Taylor?

SHE WAS

KNOWN AS

THE GHOST

IN THE WHITE

HOUSE

HistoryNet.com

ANSWSONS. ONE DIED IN INFANCY. A SECOND, FRANK, DIED AS A YOUNG ER: FIRST LADY JANE PIERCE. THE PIERCES HAD THREE

CHILD. AFTER THESE TWO DEATHS, PIERCE FOCUSED ALL OF HER ATTENTION ON THE REMAINING SON, BENNY. JUST WEEKS

BEFORE HER HUSBAND’S INAUGURATION, PIERCE WATCHED AS HER ELEVEN YEAR OLD BENNY WAS CRUSHED AND KILLED

IN A TRAIN DERAILMENT. SHE NEVER RECOVERED AND SPENT MUCH OF HER HUSBAND’S ADMINISTRATION OUT OF SIGHT.

For more, visit

WWW.HISTORYNET.COM/

MAGAZINES/QUIZ

Strife on Union

Gettysburgthe Eve of

U.S. ArmFirst Black y’s

Officer

Gatling’s Wonder

Weapon

Plus!

bragg’s

bACKSTABBERS

HowLed to Defeat in the W Insubordinate Generals est

Braxton Bragg, the South’s most complicated

general.

HISTORYNET.COMMARCH 2019

ACW-190300-COVER-DIGITAL-BW.indd 1 11/21/18 2:38 PM