Print circa 1865 showing US President Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed surrounded by members of his Cabinet, Generals and family.
Print circa 1865 showing US President Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed surrounded by members of his Cabinet, Generals and family. Lincoln (1809 - 1865) was the 16th President of the United States of America (1861 - 1865) and the first to be assassinated. He was famously shot in the head by actor (and Confederate sympathiser) John Wilkes Booth while attending a show at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC on the evening of April 14 1865 and carried across the street to the Petersen House where he died the following day. Depicted left to right at Lincoln's bedside are: Postmaster General William Dennison; Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher; Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles; Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch; General Montgomery Meigs; General Christopher Augur; General Henry Halleck; Chief Justice Salmon P Chase; Surgeon General Joseph Barnes; Mrs Mary Lincoln; Major John Hay; Captain Robert Lincoln; Surgeon; Charles Sumner; Secretary of War Edwin Stanton; Attorney General James Speed. Print by A Brett & Co.
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