Gunshot Wound

[Rhatkinson]

I've always found this issue interesting. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like much of an intellectual life for Lincoln even if he had survived. That may have been worse than death (as horrid as that sounds.) Lincoln as inarticulate is a sad thought indeed.

"If he had lived, he would at the very least have been partially blind, unsteady on his feet, numb in certain regions of his body and inarticulate. Nevertheless, he might have been able to think and, after much rehabilitation, communicate."

Heath