Ok. We have 3 "items" that have a person , not Lincoln, connecting them.
"Glance" ( that's a tricky one I suggest )
Old pair of trousers.
Fort Pickens.
Lincoln didn't go to Fort Pickens, true. But at the beginning of his presidency he was involved in "Fort Pickens " ( much like JFK and Bay of Pigs .... well sort of. ) 2 young men were the main leaders of that escapade .
One of the young men was with Lincoln later at the other end of the War, when the connection to the other 2 items happened.
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns