doctors at lincoln's bedside

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(02-14-2015 05:17 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Dr. May is included in most lists I have seen. Kees did a tremendous amount of research and included him here. Fred Hatch, in the December 2003 Journal of the Lincoln Assassination, wrote an article titled "Lincoln's Doctors," and he included May as being at the Petersen House. Dr. Ed Steers lists all the Petersen House doctors in his assassination encyclopedia; Dr. May is in Dr. Steers' list.

However, in A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours, author W. Emerson Reck makes no mention of Dr. May arriving at the Petersen House.

In American Brutus Mike Kauffman mentions Dr. May was present at the Petersen House, and the footnote reads, "Dr. May's presence at the deathbed is previously unknown, but Dr. Charles Taft's notebook lists him among those who were there."

However, I checked what I thought was Dr. Taft's notebook, but I cannot find a reference to Dr. May.

Has any list been compiled of the doctors in attending Seward, his sons, and the others wounded in his house? I know Dr. Verdi was there and the Surgeon General had been called and, I believe he went there first because he thought they misspoke about Lincoln.