Abraham Lincoln’s Montgomery County Connections

Susan Soderberg is a public historian with the Germantown Historical Society, and the Friends of Oakley Cabin and the Underground Railroad.  She has written several historical documents including: A Guide to Civil War Sites in Maryland: Blue and Gray in a Border State; The Met: A History of the Metropolitan Branch of the B&O Railroad; Lest We Forget: A Guide to Civil War Monuments in Maryland; Who Was Who of the Civil War Correspondents; and A History of Germantown, Maryland. Susan is a Commissioner on the Governor’s Commission of Military Monuments, on the Board of the Germantown Historical Society, and holds membership in numerous national and local historical associations. Susan was one of two researchers for the 2011 film “Life in a War Zone: Montgomery County in the Civil War,” produced by Heritage Montgomery.

Susan will take an historic look back at the Congressman and the President Abraham Lincoln, and his diverse connections to Montgomery County before, and associated with, the Civil War.  Among the things covered are his visit to Montanverde, a Montgomery County historic house; his and Mary Todd Lincoln’s relations with the Blair family of Silver Spring; his being shot at by Confederate snipers shooting from where Walter Reed is today; and the arrest of one of the assassination conspirators in Germantown.