Borne by Loving Hands

[Steve]

Here's a link to a Voice of America story about the restoration of the painting "Borne by Loving Hands", which was made from a contemporaneous sketch by the artist:

https://www.voanews.com/a/painting-captu...12345.html

For what it's worth, taking into account artistic license and all, in the painting there are four men in civilian clothes carrying the President across the street on a makeshift stretcher being assisted by an Army Officer who is shown holding back the crown.

If Augustus Clark was meeting somebody at Peterson House before Lincoln was shot, I would guess it would be either Henry Safford or Thomas Proctor since they both were clerks at the War Department like Clark.