Ladd at Deathbed?

[Steve Whitlock]

(02-15-2021 02:23 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Many thanks to Steve W. for sending the JSTOR article on Wormley.

The article on pg88 mentions a picture with the Ulke brothers in it from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, drawn by Albert Berghaus.

Title
The Dying Moments of President Lincoln, at Washington, Saturday Morning, April 15
Date Created
1865-04-01
Creator/Contributor
Berghaus, Albert, active 1869-1880
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper
Note
Illustration of President Abraham Lincoln lying in his deathbed at the Peterson House, where he was taken after being shot at Ford's Theatre the evening of April 14, 1865 and where he died early the next morning. Doctors Rufus F. Andrews and Robert K. Stone sit in chairs in front of the bed attending to the President. The other side of the bed is surrounded by onlookers identified (left to right) as Julius Ulke, Henry Ulke, William Petersen Jr., Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Representative John F. Farnsworth, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Representative Schuyler Colfax, Postmaster Wiliam Dennison, Thomas Proctor, William Petersen, Senator Charles Sumner, Robert Todd Lincoln, General George G. Meade, Dr. Charles H. Crane, General Henry W. Halleck, Henry Safford, Secretary of War ¬-Edwin Stanton, as well as unnamed others.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper artist Albert Berghaus entered the Petersen House on April 15, 1865. The illustration is an inaccurate representation of how many men could fit in the death room at one time but does include many men who visited the Peterson House the night of the assassination and is based on the recollections of the house's residents
Image was stitched together in photoshop from two scans of the right and left sides of this oversized illustration
This item was digitized as part of Ford's Theater Remembering Lincoln project
City
Washington, D.C.
Neighborhood
Penn Quarter, Washington, D.C.
516 10th Street NW
Source
Original version: Newspaper
Historical Image Collection, Oversized, Civil War
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Behind Julius Ulke, standing on left, is an unnamed individual who appears a shade darker than everyone else. Perhaps that was James Wormley; although, I have no photos/drawings of him with a moustache. Strictly speculation, obviously, but if someone wanted to include him, and avoid racial issues, not naming him might do the trick.