Existing comment:
Cuff of Dr. Edward Curtis's sleeve, stained with Lincoln's blood.
Envelope that contained the bloodstained cuff.
When Dr. Curtis returned home from the autopsy and was changing his clothes, he found a few drops of Lincoln's blood had stained the cuffs of his shirt. His wife cut the cuffs from the shirt and sealed them in this envelope. Dr. Curtis endorsed the envelope with the following:
Shirt sleeve soiled with the blood of
President Abraham Lincoln at the autopsy
on his body April 15, 1865
Edward Curtis, Asst. Surg. USA |