doctors at lincoln's bedside

[windband]

I recently acquired a large collection of Ephemera from the estate of Virginia Miller (daughter of 19th century white house doctor Dr. Thomas Miller), I wanted to share one of the documents of I came across on your forum. It it a letter to President Andrew Johnson from the Surgeon General's office requesting the release of the Dr. Major Cornelius Boyle. The letter includes over 30 signatures of DC area doctors in 1867 including at least four of the physician that were with Lincoln at Ford theater and the Petersen House Albert F King, Charles H.L. Liebermann, Charles M. Ford, and Jame C. Hall.

What is really fascinating to me about the letter is that Dr. Boyle was a major confederate spy (One of Robert E Lee favorites) and most likely a conspirator in the plot to kill Lincoln. If this info had been public knowledge at the time I would like to think the document would have a lot less signatures.

https://books.google.com/books?id=yZWIaU...or&f=false