Thomas "Tad" Lincoln was the fourth and youngest son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln. Following his brother Willie's death in 1862, Tad became especailly close to his parents. Tad died at age 18 on July 15, 1871. He is buried with his parents and brothers Eddie and Willie at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois.]]>
"Toll O mournfully the bell,
Chant the dirge and ring the knell,
Let it throb and rise and swell,
Up to Heaven, up to the goal,
Of our martyred patriot's soul."]]>
This is Donizetti's famous funeral march from his opera Dom Sebastian, which premiered in 1843.


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Composer, "Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst," was Susan McFarland Parkhurst, a friend of Stephen Foster's and the author of several Civil War songs. She began composing after her husband died in the war in 1864.]]>
"Before everything but the republic he chastely dropped his eyes" "He was the marble lover of liberty" - Les Miserables.

Enjolras is a fictional charector in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. He is a revolutionary an defender of republican ideals.]]>