On April 15, 1865 at 7:22 am, President Abraham Lincoln died from a single gunshot wound to the head. After the President’s death at the Petersen house, his body was placed in a temporary coffin covered with an American flag and transported by hearse to the White House.

Read about President Abraham Lincoln’s final hours, his cause of death, & autopsy report online at the Shapell Manuscript Foundation.

The autopsy was conducted at the White House on April 15, 1865, by JJ Woodward and E Curtis approximately 2 hours after Lincoln was declared dead. The report of the autopsy is clear as to the laterality of the wound.

Mary Lincoln claimed one, as did several of the doctors present at the Petersen House or his autopsy. Others were purloined from Lincoln’s head, and one wonders how he made it to the grave with...

Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes and Dr. Robert Stone presided, while Dr. Joseph Janvier Woodward and Dr. Edward Curtis performed the autopsy. The interpretation of the injury and care provided for President Lincoln are best told by those who were present.

The autopsy of President Abraham Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, the assassin John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC.

2015年2月12日 · When Lincoln breathed his last on Saturday morning, April 15, 1865, his wife was ensconced in the front parlor of the Petersen House. Edwin Stanton, secretary of war, had invited her to the...

2022年1月4日 · Lincoln's autopsy was performed at the White House by Army Surgeons Edward Curtis and Joseph Janvier Woodward, with Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes also in attendance, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. In a letter to his mother, Curtis wrote that Lincoln's body was placed on boards and covered with sheets and towels.

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3] .

1996年12月29日 · After President Abraham Lincoln passed away on the morning of April 15, 1865, his body was returned by hearse to the White House shortly after 9:00 A.M. Accompanied by an escort of cavalry, the solemn procession slowly moved up 10th Street to G Street and thence to the White House.