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Your guess: "angels" or "ages?"
10-21-2013, 03:34 PM
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RE: Your guess: "angels" or "ages?"
O'Beirne is saying he was at the deathbed.

"I was officially present as provost marshal of the District of Columbia, with but short intervals of absence, too insignificant to be unaware to be of any important event to have transpired in the room where the great Lincoln lay on his deathbed from the time when he was first carried into the modest house where he died, on Tenth Street, nearly opposite Ford's Theater, now the Army Medical Museum. I was at or near Secretary of Stanton's side, under his orders most of the time, and stood near him at the rear door in the gray of the morning when Mr. Lincoln died. He had been unconscious, manifesting life only by heavy stertorous when he was first laid in the little bedchamber. When first brought there, he was [little] more than comatose, hardly breathing. At the suggestion of the physician a civilian then in charge of him ran to the restaurant next door to the theater and procured a large sarsaparilla glass of brandy, which was poured down Mr. Lincoln's throat and seemed to establish respiration."

Was there a window by the back door?
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RE: Your guess: "angels" or "ages?" - Rhatkinson - 10-20-2013, 08:12 AM
RE: Your guess: "angels" or "ages?" - Linda Anderson - 10-21-2013 03:34 PM
RE: Your guess: "angels" or "ages?" - Hess1865 - 10-21-2013, 08:04 PM

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