[During their stay the Lincolns probably made trips to nearby places. As definite information on these trips is not available and as they were probably not absent overnight, Lexington is given as their location during entire visit.]

Henry Clay speaks on Mexican War, denouncing it as war of aggression. Meeting adopts resolutions declaring hostilities occasioned by Taylor's army advancing into territory under jurisdiction of Mexico. Lincoln undoubtedly attends. William H. Townsend, Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), 152-55.

The Lincolns leave for national capital. William H. Townsend, Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), 161.

(They probably travel by stage from Lexington to Winchester, Virginia, where they could take Winchester and Potomac Railroad to Harpers Ferry. From there they could take Baltimore and Ohio to Relay Station, Maryland. Thence branch line ran to Washington. John W. Starr, Lincoln and the Railroads: A Biographical Study (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927), 48.)