Ladd at Deathbed?

[Steve Whitlock]

(02-14-2021 06:33 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Thanks to Steve W. for sending this article. It's from page 1 of the April 16, 1865, edition of the New York Herald. It mentions Gen. Todd being at the side of Lincoln on his death bed.

Thank you to Steve Williams for the great article! In addition to errors he pointed out there is another, I believe. Dr C. D. Hatch should be C. D. Gatch (Charles Davenport Gatch) who was named in an earlier Evening Star account at the time. That is, unless someone knows of a Dr. C. D. Hatch being present at Lincoln's deathbed. That said, there remain problems with the Gatch brothers account of their involvement. For example, the brother of C. D. Gatch, who wrote the account many years later, claimed they were given the cuffs that Lincoln wore the night of his assassination, and that they were stolen 15 years before his account, but the cuffs were actually given to Dr. Leale, and are in a collection now.