Clara Harris's Bloody Dress

[RJNorton]

What I was trying to do was reconcile Clara Harris' statement ( "The President’s wound did not bleed externally..”) with Seaton Munroe's account ("not only was her gown soaked in Lincoln's blood, but her hands, and even her cheeks where her fingers had strayed, were bedaubed with the sorry stains"). My question could really apply to both ladies' dresses. I was asking that if we take Clara's statement at face value then maybe the vast majority of the blood on both dresses must have been Rathbone's? It's also difficult to reconcile Clara's statement that Laure Keene was never in the box at all with other accounts (such as Dr. Leale's) that placed Keene there. I am also confused by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's stand that Lincoln bled from behind his left ear all the way down his coat to his pocket where his gloves were. This also does not reconcile with Clara's "the President's wound did not bleed externally." Lots of confusion in my mind.