Seward Attack

[BettyO]

(08-25-2012 09:42 AM)Rsmyth Wrote:  Was it a diamond stick pin?
As Booth lay dying on the porch of the Garrett farmhouse, Colonel Everton Conger searched his pockets. Conger removed a stone set in jet and gold stick pin from Booth’s undershirt. In 1863 Booth and black face comedic actor Dan Bryant exchanged gifts with Bryant receiving a flask. In all likelihood, this was the pin General Edward Davis Townsend received from General Thomas Eckert, Assistant Secretary of War, in August 1865.

That's the pin, Rich - the gold stick pin. What happened to it is anyone's guess. I, like Dave Taylor, believe that it's "lost" and misfiled in the NPS Vault - along with Powell's slouch hat and heaven knows what else....