"Doctors say Lincoln had severe smallpox when he delivered Gettysburg Address," the headline on the AP story read.
That seemed like old news.
I checked and it was.
Gettysburg physician Bradley R. Hoch explored Lincoln's illness in his "The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania", published in 2001. And he involved York County's Hanover Junction in his explanation.
As Lincoln was returning to Washington, D.C., via Hanover Junction, he waited for a connecting train. Hoch wrote:
Continue reading Abe Lincoln's smallpox story has been told before.
