Identification of Booth's body
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10-02-2018, 11:35 AM
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RE: Identification of Booth's body
So which of these two woodcuts/engravings best depicts the autopsy?
http://i.gettysburgdaily.com/imgs/Booth0...071213.jpg from Lafayette C. Baker's "The United States Secret Service in the Late War" or, https://rogerjnorton.com/montauk.jpg bearing a the notation "HW May 13, 1865" (obviously Harper's Weekly) Note the difference in the autopsy table (barrels vs. foldable table), the deck plating of the monitor, and the Harper's Weekly showing mourning crepe on the two gentlemen at left. Seems I heard that barrels were used as support for the autopy table, and the deck plating looks like what an ironclad's should be, so I would vote for Baker's, but I'm usually wrong. |
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