23. Lincoln’s Stable Animals Died In A Fire
On the night of February 10, 1864, Abraham Lincoln woke to see flames shooting out from the second story of the stable house. He ran outside, where a crowd had gathered and asked if the horses had been taken out. When Lincoln heard that the animals were still in the building, Lincoln ran and tried to open the doors to the stables in attempts to save the horses, goats, and ponies but the building was too full of fire, and the doors could not open. Unfortunately, all the animals inside the stable died in the fire.