Montauk

[RJNorton]

Kees, the accounts I have seen do not include Tad as being present.

One account is by Francis Durbin Blakeslee. He said, "I saluted Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln at the Navy Yard, the afternoon of the very day that he was assassinated. Some fellow clerks and I had gone there to see the monitors, damaged in the Fort Fisher engagement, which had come to the Navy Yard for repairs. They were "rare birds" to landsmen. As fast as builded, they were rushed into service. All Washington, as it were, turned out to see the ironclads which marked such a revolution in naval warfare. We went all over three of them. The autopsy on the body of the assassin, Booth, was later held in the gun-room of one of these, the "Montauk."

The President and his wife drove up and halted at the end of a platform, similar to a railway platform, upon which my friends and I were standing. We saluted, and the salute was returned."