Your guess: "angels" or "ages?"

[Linda Anderson]

James O'Beirne's claim can be found in The Lincoln Assassination: The Reward Files by Edward Steers and William C. Edwards.

O'Beirne states that he went to the Petersen House at 10:45 PM "with a view to rendering whatever relief was in my power." He procured brandy for the President and Major Rathbone and "secured the presence of the President's physician and other medical gentlemen." He then went to Seward's house. "My next concern was for the Hon. the Secretary of War, to whose house I posted in haste and whom I found had gone to visit the wounded; I followed him until I met him at the house opposite Ford's theater, which done, I resolved as a matter of duty to remain by his side to add my humble efforts to aid in the securing of the Secretary of War against any attempt on his life which I had every reason to believe would be attempted."

As Anita cites, O'Beirne was then ordered by Stanton to go to the Kirkwood House and escort Vice President Johnson to the Petersen House which he did. O'Beirne escorted Johnson back to the Kirkwood House a short time later. If we are to believe O'Beirne, he would have then returned to the Petersen House.

http://books.google.com/books?id=gfgXgy6...=GBS.PA282

I found the listing for O'Beirne's documents in Heritage Historical Americana Auction #6014 the Dr. John K. Lattimer Collection of Lincolniana

http://books.google.com/books?id=Nk6Hzel...ne&f=false