It is said that the old Seward kitchen was one of the most popular stations of the Underground Railroad, and that many a poor slave who fled by this route to Canada carried to his grave the remembrance of its warmth and cheer.
The Bloody Sheet from Seward's Assassination Attempt
c. 1865
From Seward's bed on the night of the assassination attempt. Strip of a linen bedsheet showing knife slashes and dried blood droplets. Sheet cut by knife of the assassin on the night of April 14, 1865.