Pictorial representations Lincoln’s deathbed

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Right now, my computer refuses to copy and paste the Faber sketch to accompany this text. If you are not familiar with the sketch, go to http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/index.cfm?p...ln.page_01 Given the immediacy of this sketch being done so quickly after Lincoln's death as well as the doctors who provided details, I would say that this information is among the most accurate as to who was in the room at the time of death.

"Immediately after the removal of Lincoln’s body, Hermann Faber, a medical artist on duty at the Army Medical Museum, entered the room where the president had died and made a sketch, which he showed to Dr. Woodward who provided details of the position of those present at the time of Lincoln’s demise. Drs. Woodward and Barnes approved the accuracy of the sketch.
Sketch of death-bed scene
(From “Lincoln Memorabilia in the Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1958 Jan-Feb;32(1): 68-74.)
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Sketch of death-bed scene, by Hermann Faber. Persons around Lincoln who can be identified (left to right): 1. Gideon Welles, Sec. of Navy, 2. Salmon P. Chase, Sec. of Treasury, 3. Dr. Robert King Stone, Lincoln’s personal physician, 4. Chas. Sumner, U.S. Senator, 5. Dr. Chas. H. Crane, Asst. Surg. Gen., 6. Dr. Jos. K. Barnes, Surg. Gen., 7. Henry W. Halleck, Maj. Gen., 8. Edwin McMasters Stanton, Sec. of War.