Who Can You Believe

[Linda Anderson]

This is Dr. Verdi's account of Fred's injuries.

"The wounds of Frederick excited the greatest solicitude. The brain was exposed in both places; in the anterior one fully a square inch of the membranes of the brain was exposed to view. A lacerated vessel on the interior surface of the cranium would from time to time bleed so profusely as to put his life in imminent jeopardy, and yet it could not be reached for a ligature. We were constantly kept in fearful apprehension of these hemorrhages."

"The Assassination of the Sewards" - "The Republic" - Vol I, from March to December 1873, p. 296.

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Here is an earlier account from Dr. Verdi of Fred and Gus's injuries.

"...after which I was informed that FREDERICK SEWARD was in an adjacent room, also injured. I hastily went to him and found him lying on a lounge, with blood streaming over his face. He had been wounded in several places, viz., on the left parietal bone, just about the "parietal eminence;" on the left side of the frontal bone, just about the line of intersection with the parietal; with two other light wounds in that neighborhood. The injury on the parietal eminence had evidently crushed the bone, as osseous spiculae were taken out; but it appeared, however, that the internal table, even if fractured, was not depressed. He was not insensible, but could not articulate. In about an hour, however, after his wounds were dressed, he fell into a slumber from which, for sixty hours, he could not be aroused. I had scarcely finished applying ice to arrest the hemorrhage, when I was told to look at Mr. AUG. SEWARD. I became truly amazed -- "What!" said I, "is there another one wounded?" His injuries, however, were comparatively light -- one was from a blow with the butt-end of a pistol, on the upper and middle part of the forehead; the other a cut over the metacarpal bone of the thumb of his right hand."

New York Times - THE ASSAULT UPON MR. SEWARD.; Interesting Details--Letter From Dr. Verdi, Mr. Seward's Family Physician.
T. S. Verdi
Published: May 18, 1865

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