The irony involved in these fatalities extends beyond the fact that the death-dealing weapon was known as "The Peacemaker." In fact, the loss of the New York senator, David Gardiner, helped the Gardiner family accept the fact that the senator's 23-year old daughter, Julia, wanted to marry the much older President. Four months later, she became First Lady to the 54-year-old widower and stepmother to his eight children.

Julia Tyler was a rebel; at 20, she'd been sent to Europe to escape the scandal caused by her modeling for a department store advertisement. As First Lady, she hired an agent to improve her image in the press. After she and her husband left Washington, they became ardent secessionists, and after Tyler's death, she became active in the northern Copperhead movement that supported Southerners during the Civil War.

Can you name the music associated with Mrs. Tyler? She is credited with introducing the custom of playing "Hail to the Chief" to greet the nation's chief executive.