"Stump the Yankee"

[L Verge]

"I dug deep down in the carpetbag and consulted my first edition copy of The Complete & Unabridged Collection of Filthy & Vile Yankee Tricks for this one. For 5 points, Paige, please tell me...."

I do declare, they train them Yankees early on how to irritate us Rebs! Never fear, Paige, us Rascally Rebs stick together.

When Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865, he was carrying two pairs of spectacles and a lens polisher, a pocketknife, a watch fob, a linen handkerchief, and a brown leather wallet containing a five-dollar Confederate note and nine newspaper clippings, including several favorable to the president and his policies. Given to his son Robert Todd upon Lincoln's death, these everyday items, which through association with tragedy had become like relics, were kept in the Lincoln family for more than seventy years. They came to the Library in 1937 as part of the gift from Lincoln's granddaughter, Mary Lincoln Isham, whose gift included several books and daguerreotypes, a silver inkstand, and Mary Todd Lincoln's seed-pearl necklace and matching bracelets.

P.S. I believe that Donna McCreary of this forum has also told us that Lincoln was carrying his pocket watch that night.

Now get ready for a Yankee tantrum because I spoke on behalf of Paige...