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597 "shot the President!": Annie F. F. Wright, "The a.s.sa.s.sination of Abraham Lincoln," Magazine of History 9 (Feb. 1909): 113114.
597 President was dead: Most of the details on Lincoln's medical history in the following pages are taken from Dr. John K. Lattimer's highly professional study Kennedy and Lincoln: Medical and Ballistic Comparisons of Their a.s.sa.s.sinations (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980). Esp. valuable is Dr. Leale's report, pp. 2832.
598 "tendered their services": Ibid., p. 34.
598 chance of recovery: Most present-day medical experts agree with that judgment, but Dr. Richard A. R. Fraser, of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, has recently suggested that the bullet wound was not necessarily fatal and that it was the probing performed by Dr. Leale and Dr. Stone that did irreparable damage. UPI dispatch, Jan. 25, 1995, on the Internet.
598 "any man could": Reck, A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours, p. 137.
598 her husbands side: Mrs. Dixon's letter, dated May 1, 1865, in Surratt Society News 7 (Mar. 1982): 3.
598 "let her in again": Lattimer, Kennedy and Lincoln, p. 32.
599 and barely alive: For a graphic account of the attack on Seward, see Patricia Carley Johnson, ed., "Sensitivity and the Civil War: The Selected Diaries and Papers, 18581866, of Frances Adeline [f.a.n.n.y] Seward" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1963), pp. 875892.
599 "is no more!": Mrs. Dixon's letter, in Surratt Society News 7 (Mar. 1982): 4.
599 manner removed it: I have here closely followed A. F. Rockwell, "At the Death-bed of President Lincoln," Century Magazine 40 (June 1890): 311.
599 "to the ages": There has been controversy over just what Stanton said. Some witnesses reported "He belongs to the ages now," "He now belongs to the Ages," and "He is a man for the ages." Bryan, Great American Myth, p. 189; Eisenschiml, Why Was Lincoln Murdered? pp. 482485.
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