Co-sleeping
As noted above, in 19th century America, men commonly bunked with other men. For example, when lawyers and judges traveled "the circuit" with Lincoln, the lawyers often slept "two in a bed and eight in a room". William H. Herndon recalled, "I have slept with 20 men in the same room".
A tabulation of historical sources shows that Lincoln slept in the same bed as at least 11 boys and men during his youth and adulthood. There are no known instances in which Lincoln tried to suppress knowledge or discussion of such arrangements, and in some conversations, raised the subject himself. Tripp discusses three of them at length: Joshua Speed, William Greene, and Charles Derickson.
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