Lincoln Funeral Car Mystery Solved

[RJNorton]

On the face of it, Kathy, I sort of have my doubts on this. I checked Scott Trostel's book. Scott is traveling to Indianapolis today for a speaking engagement on the Lincoln Funeral Train and the Lincoln Inaugural Train. Scott mentions the incident on p. 190 of his funeral train book, but adds "surviving records provide no detail." It's obvious Scott has doubts. I would think that if an incident like this really happened then there would be newspaper accounts, additional accounts besides Luther E. Bulock's, etc. On p. 188 Scott mentions a couple of ladies fainted as the train arrived in Joliet. It makes me wonder if Bulock's memory was confused and possibly erroneous. It was raining and nighttime; perhaps Bulock was mistaken in what he saw.