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A curse on Jeff Davis written on the wall of the Frederick County Courthouse:
"To Jeff Davis
may he be set afloat on a
boat without compass or rudder
then that any concerns be swallowed
by a shark the shark by a whale
whale in the devils belly…

A drawing of Lincoln by soldiers in the 155th Pennsylvania Volunteers, with caption "His Excellency Abraham Lincoln," located above the parlor mantel. The regimental history recorded that the graffiti was left in response to "autographs, and many…