Lincoln's $5 CSA Note-- Part 3

Back to the Confederate $5 bill.

The Confederate note was found quarter-folded inside a small, brown, silk-lined leather billfold. Also in it were a railroad ticket, US currency, notes and a small pencil. These were given to Mary Lincoln Isham by her father, Robert Lincoln, and kept by her family for seventy years.

This Confederate note is featured in a Lincoln bicentennial exhibit "With Malace Toward None" to humanize him.

I would sure like to know the story of how Abraham Lincoln came to have that $5 bill. Had he received it earlier during the war or when he visited Richmond? Did somebody give it to him? Perhaps General Grant or maybe a freed slave?

That Sure Would Be Interesting to Know. --Old Secesh