Your guess: "angels" or "ages?"

[RJNorton]

Here we go again -- one source says Stanton has his head buried in the bed crying at the time of death and another says he is looking out the window. It's inconsistencies like this that can drive a researcher crazy.

Agreed, Laurie! One has to take into consideration which source was or seemingly could be the most reliable and weigh the evidence - something very difficult to do!

Is O'Beirne saying he was at the deathbed or is he simply writing what he read from other accounts? I have several lists of those present when Lincoln died, and none of them include O'Beirne. I think I may have once read that O'Beirne accompanied Johnson to the Petersen House, but Johnson stayed only a few minutes, and I assumed O'Beirne departed with him.