Wilson, Douglas L., ed; Davis, Rodney O., ed. 'Register of Informants' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: history]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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Emilie Helm, a half-sister of MTL, was the daughter of Robert S. Todd and his second wife, Elizabeth Humphreys. She married Ben Hardin Helm, who became acquainted with AL and was later a Confederate general. She remained a Southern sympathizer, though she visited her half-sister in the White House after her husband's death at Chickamauga in 1863. (R. Gerald McMurtry, Ben Hardin Helm [Chicago, 1943]; Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln [New York, 1987])