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Dr. Ezra Abbott AMS

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Dr. Ezra Abbott AMS
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Autograph manuscript signed by Dr. Ezra Abbott who attended to President Lincoln immediately after he was shot. Entitled ''Reminiscences of the Assassination of President Lincoln,'' Abbott writes in vivid detail about first sighting the wounded President and the bedside vigil as Lincoln lay dying. Abbott writes from Washington DC circa 1880, in the third person. In part, ''…saw the gleam of the knife as [Booth] struck Major Rathbone…and, jumping down from the president's box to the stage, to face the audience…with bloody hand above his head he waved a gory, glistening blade and shouted Sic semper tyrannis! Now the south are avenged…Once Abbott realized what had happened, he ran down a flight of stairs round to the President's box. There upon the floor, his head tenderly supported in the lap of…Laura Keene…lay the prostrate, unconscious form of President Lincoln. Efforts were made to remove his coat, searching for wounds, and in so doing the coat was cut about the arms and breast. Tenderly raising his inanimate form, the writer and five others carried him…to a house across the street…'' That night, Dr. Abbott would record Lincoln's vital statistics which was published in the New York Times on 16 April 1865. Four page manuscript measures 6'' x 7.5''. A somewhat rough left edge, evidently from removal from a notebook, else fine.