This second floor room may have been Lincoln's bedroom but nobody can be sure, said our tour guide, Angela Brown, of the National Trust. Angela wrote her master's thesis on Lincoln's commute to the Old Soldier's Home. It was three miles on dirt roads in a carriage which took about half an hour. There is a story, unconfirmed, that somebody put a bullet through Lincoln's stovepipe hat near the entrance to the grounds one evening as drove alone. Secretary of War Stanton insisted a troop of cavalry accompany him from then on. There was some monkey business with his carriage brakes, too, which tossed Mary Lincoln from the carriage once. Nobody knew if it was an accident or sabotage.