This play by Ken Bradbury is set on Christmas Eve, 1864, in the White House. President and Mrs. Lincoln (Randy Duncan and Pam Brown) are visited by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (Dennis Rendleman) as they await news from Gen. Willliam T. Sherman’s army. Sherman’s army has not been heard from since it left Atlanta, Georgia, on Nov. 15 with the intent to cut a swath through Georgia to the sea. The play, roughly 50 minutes long, was originally presented at the U.S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis, according to Rendleman. Candlelight walking tours of the Lincoln Home will follow both days from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
A Message at Midnight
3 p.m., Friday, Dec. 12, and 3 p.m. Sat., Dec. 13
Lincoln Home Historic Site Visitors Center
217-492-4241
This article appears in December 11-17, 2025.
