The Bloody Pillow Case

[Warren]

(09-16-2014 08:31 PM)Anita Wrote:  Warren, thank you so much for sharing this wonderful collection. Many articles hidden away in scrapbooks such as yours can shed a new a new light on Lincoln study topics. And I can assure you that many of us have not read all of these articles.

That's what's so great about the forum. You are providing an opportunity for learning by posting. You must have been excited when you found these.

You are all very welcome and I hope I can continue to contribute things of value, meager as they may be.

Funny story about finding this scrap book. I search lots of estates sale and dig through many boxes. If I'm not covered in filth by noon on Saturdays, I don't feel like I've been doing my job. I like scrap books because of what may be hidden in them, especially the older ones. No one was paying attention to this particular book, but I could tell from age it was from turn of century or before. My thoughts were there might be some political campaign material in there. I opened it up and saw a story about Custer, another one of my collecting passions. That's where I got excited! Quickly closed it up, paid a nominal amount and left with it relishing a great, and perhaps a new story, about the battle. Instead, it was one of those flowery, late 19th century fillers about reporter who meets an old soldier and old soldier, who wasn't at the battle of course, tells what would have gone through Custer's mind prior to death. How he would have "gone down swinging his sword" (no sword at that battle) and that he would have "died with a smile on his face, thinking of Libby" (Sure.) Pure garbage. Then I noticed that a lot of the pages of this book were stuck together from age (and the unholy heat and humidity of Houston), and carefully began prying them apart and started seeing all the Lincoln articles.

I swear, it is the thrill of the hunt.