- Date:
- 1860
- Original Format:
- Photographic Print
- Item#:
- MES17357
Emily Todd Helm
Emily Todd was Mary Todd Lincoln's half-sister. In 1856 she married Benjamin Helm, a Confederate general. After Helm's death in 1863 Emily Helm passed through Union Lines to visit her sister in the White House. This caused great consternation in the Northern newspapers. Emily Helm took an oath of loyalty to the Union and was granted amnesty.
Related Categories:
- Confederacy & Confederate Army
- Civil War
- Lincoln, Mary Todd
- Marriage of Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd