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Rio Grande Camp Knife (Bowie Knife) used by Lewis Powell in assassination attempt on William Seward, April 14, 1865
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- Description
- A large fixed blade knife with a bone handle and leather sheath. Stamped on the blade: Rio Grand Camp Knife. At the base of the blade is stamped: Wm. Jackson & Co. / Sheaf Island Works / Sheffield.
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Call number
- George Foster Robinson Papers
- Additional description
- Also included are card photographs of George Foster Robinson, George Vocke, a fellow nurse who was also detailed to Seward's house, and an autographed card photograph of Boston Corbett who shot J. Wilkes Booth on Apr. 26, 1865; the bowie knife, (8 inch blade, "Rio Grande Camp Knife, Wm. Jackson & Co. Sheaf Island Works, Sheffield"), that Robinson received from the War Department in 1866 and a duplicate copy of the Congressional gold medal. (The original gold medal was donated by Myrtle D. Robinson to the United States National Museum of History in 1947).
