"Stump the Yankee"

[Laurie Verge]

Roger,

Don't bother going through Bain's book again. I had Joan Chaconas do it while I worked today, and she couldn't find it in there either. She did remember a letter that she found in the NPS files many years ago, however, and pulled out a copy from her files.

Dated April 17, 1865, it is a letter written by one of the men who made the simple pine box that was used to transport Lincoln's body from the Petersen House to the White House. It's long, but when I'm off the government clock, I will post highlights of it here.

Joe - does your mom call you by both your first and middle names when she's mad? That's what I do to my daughter. They also made the mistake of giving my grandson three names, so he gets all three thrown at him when grandma is on his case!

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Rich - We cross posted! That's exactly the story I remember, so you must have been the one who told it to me. Thanks for breathing oxygen back into my fading brain - I didn't hallucinate after all.

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Joe - Does this mean that you Yanks are catching up? Rich is from north of the Mason Dixon Line.

Rich - I now remember this was in a newspaper article at the time of the donation to Ford's. There's a picture of the presentation.