The Bloody Pillow Case

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(09-19-2014 08:14 AM)Lincoln Wonk Wrote:  The doctors used the Petersens' cloth napkins too, to cover up the bloody pillows whenever Mary Lincoln came into the room. They used many napkins.
Fred Petersen made $1.12 in fewer than 10 minutes selling squares of paper dipped in blood -- probably Rathbone's blood because he was the one who was bleeding profusely all over the hallway floor.

I think there are quite a few Lincoln collectors out there who believe they own a relic with AL's blood...but it's in fact Henry Rathbone's!

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(09-19-2014 12:44 PM)Warren Wrote:  Reminds me of all those old museums I visited in Europe. John the Baptist must have had over a thousand teeth in his skull, and I saw enough slivers of the True Cross to build Noah's Ark.

Sooo true!!