ABOVE LEFT: President Lincoln's funeral catafalque. ABOVE RIGHT: Here is an authentic piece of the cloth from Lincoln's funeral is thought to be the largest in private hands. It is accompanied by two white tassels, also from the catafalque.
The cloth came from the estate of Captain Alexander Austin, a cousin of President John Adams. Austin was in the 120th New York Infantry and was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. He participated in the funeral as a member of the honor guard.
Manacles Worn by
Assassination Conspirator
Lewis Payne
Composed of a stiff central bar with cuffs at either end, designed to keep the hands rigidly apart. Known as “lilly-irons”, Barely 21 years old when he entered into Booth’s conspiracy, Payne was the son of a Baptist minister. As a Confederate soldier he was wounded at Gettysburg and served under Col. John S. Mosby. His impassive stoicism was constantly remarked by observers, even while he was kept in these uncomfortable manacles throughout the assassination trial, and he even displayed jauntiness as he walked to the gallows on 7 July 1865, snatching the hat off a bystander’s head and placing it on his own.