The story starts out in November of 1964. Virginia is ten, and her family has just moved to Washington, D.C. The city was not really finished yet, though, and there were swamps and lots of mud around. There's an excessively cold winter, and finding jobs is not easy. Virgina ends up working as a sort of maid for a woman, though, in order to bring in some money to help her family.
Virginia really likes Lincoln and gets to see him and his son Tad riding their horses.
As the story progresses, the news from the war keeps getting better until the South finally ends its fighting. The last part of the story concerns the assassination of Lincoln and how people react to that.
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