President Lincoln's Cottage

This guide to President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington, D.C. centers on a single night in August 1864, when Lincoln rode home alone along the dirt path to this retreat and a rifle shot rang out of the darkness. It follows what a startled horse, a punctured hat, and a private named John Nichols revealed the next morning, and Lincoln's own insistence that the whole thing was nothing worth investigating. Listen for what the War Department decided to do about it afterward.