Looking for Abraham Lincoln

[Anita]

You are correct Laurie. It is a bolster.

There is a separate page on the Bloody Evidence site about it. It appears that there were two pillows under the bolster. They don't believe the orange stain is blood.
http://www.chicagohistory.org/wetwithblo...illow2.htm

There's also an interesting NY Times article dated Feb. 9, 1913
http://tinyurl.com/n27rpjy. It shows a photo of the bolster and a bloody pillow belonging to George Rector and quotes Fred Petersen's first-hand account of Lincoln's final hours at the Petersen house.