"Phantoms" at Lincoln's deathbed

[RickBeaver]

I've often wondered what would have happened in the Peterson house if there had been a conspirator rooming there. What if Henry Safford would have been connected to it? So many high government officials in one place! Yikes!

James Tanner, a disabled soldier who was a War Department clerk, lived in the house next door to the Petersen home. He wrote that the house was strictly guarded. Soldiers stood guard at the front door and were posted on the roof to keep the growing crowds at bay. While doctors cared for the president the Petersen family and some of the boarders spent the night in the basement.

Thanks for that info loetar44, I've often wondered about the security around that place at the time.