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1. PHOUSE_090715_005.JPG: Mary's Waiting Room: Front Parlor: In this room, Mary Lincoln grieved between visits to her husband's bedside. She spent most of the night on a black horse-hair sofa similar to the one in this room. Among the many people that tried to console Mary that night were her eldest son Robert, and Miss Clara Harris. Clara, along with her fiancee Major Henry Rathbone, accompanied the Lincolns to the theatre that evening. The house furnishings are period pieces. "Oh! that my little Taddy might see his father before he died! -- Mary Todd Lincoln
2. PHOUSE_090715_032.JPG: Temporary Seat of Government: Back Parlor: Edwin M. Stanton directed all functions of the executive branch from this room. Stanton conducted interrogations and directed the manhunt for Booth and his accomplices. James Tanner, a government clerk who lived next door, served as stenographer for the Secretary of War throughout the night. The Secretary of War also summoned members of Lincoln's Cabinet to this room and held an emergency Cabinet meeting in which they drafted a letter to inform Vice President Andrew Johnson of his imminent Presidency. "Within fifteen minutes I had testimony enough to hang Wilkes Booth... the assassin." -- James Tanner
3. PHOUSE_090715_076.JPG: Room Where Lincoln Died: Back Bedroom: In this room, at 7:22am on April 15, 1865, an unconscious Abraham Lincoln breathed his last. Mr. Lincoln was therefore unable to witness the nation reunite after its greatest trial. "Now he belongs to the ages." According to John Hay, one of President's personal secretaries, these profound words were uttered by Edwin Stanton at the time of Lincoln's death. The original bed is on exhibit in the Chicago American History Museum.
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Wikipedia Description: Ford's Theatre
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Petersen House:

Attendants, including Dr. Charles Leale, carried the President onto 10th street. The doctor decided to take him to Petersen's boarding house across the street. The streets were extremely crowded with people, because of the uproar. A captain cleared the way to the brick federal style rowhouse. A boarder, Henry Safford, noticed what was going on and stood on the front steps crying, "Bring him in here, bring him in here!" Then he was taken into the bedroom in the rear of the parlors and placed on a bed that was not long enough for him. Mrs. Lincoln was escorted across the street by Clara Harris, who had been in the box during the shooting, and whose fianc�e, Henry Rathbone, had been stabbed by Booth during the assassination. Rathbone, bleeding severely from the knife wound in his arm, collapsed due to loss of blood after arriving at the Petersen House.

During the night and early morning, military guards patrolled outside to prevent onlookers from coming inside the house. A parade of government officials and physicians was allowed to come inside and pay respects to the unconscious President. Physicians continually removed blood clots which formed over the wound and poured out the excess brain fluid and brain matter from where the bullet had entered Lincoln's head in order to relieve pressure on the brain. However, the external and internal hemorrhaging continued throughout the night. Lincoln died in the house on April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m., at age 56. Among the attending physicians was Anderson Ruffin Abbott, a black, Canadian-educated doctor who later wrote “Some recollections of Lincoln’s assassination".

Administrative history:

The theatre was authorized for federal purchase on April 7, 1866. The Petersen House was authorized as the House Where Lincoln Died on June 11, 1896. Both structures were transferred from the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National C ...More...
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