Clara Harris's Bloody Dress

[Linda Anderson]

(11-01-2013 08:38 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  There was another book written about the dress and its story, "The White Satin Dress", by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews in 1929.
The entire "Haunted Major" - article is here:
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/...jor?page=2
(...but the last passages IMO contain misinformation at least twice).

Thanks, Eva.

Here's more information from the Chicago Historical Society on Clara's dress.

"The Chicago Historical Society's collection includes two stained dress fragments associated with Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

"A white silk fragment is attributed to Clara Harris, the young woman sharing the Lincoln's box seat at the Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination. A brief note describes the fragment as a remnant of a sleeve lining."

http://www.chicagohistory.org/wetwithblo.../index.htm