about a flag and some relics

[LincolnToddFan]

I was surprised and a little disturbed to read that AL was buried wearing gloves. By all accounts he hated wearing gloves and only wore them for fancy State occasions at Mary's insistence. And as soon as her back was turned he would remove them. At Ford's Theater on the fateful night of April 14th, he had taken off his gloves and shoved them into a pocket of his coat. They were later removed stained with blood that had trickled down his coat into his pocket after he was shot. They are in the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum in Springfield. You can see them on Youtube being carefully displayed by curator James Cornelius.

But yes, he was indeed buried wearing fine French kid leather gloves. Edwin Stanton supervised the dressing of the remains and insisted upon it.

At his final exhumation and viewing in September 1901, they had mostly rotted away.