Petersen's Boarding House
After President Lincoln was shot in the head, people at Ford's Theater
tried to assist him. He was carried across the street, to Petersen's Boarding House, depicted in
this illustration from Perley's Reminiscences, Volume 2.
The text from
that chapter - "A Night of Terror" - provides more information:
The President was seen to turn in his seat, and persons leaped upon the
stage and clambered up to the box. His clothes were stripped from his
shoulders, but no wound was at first found. He was entirely insensible.
Further search revealed the fact that he had been shot in the head, and he was
carried to the nearest house, immediately opposite.
Mrs. Lincoln, in a frantic
condition, was assisted in crossing the street with the President, at the same
time uttering heart-rending shrieks. Surgeons were soon in attendance, but it
was evident that the wound was mortal. (Benjamin Perley Poore, Perley's Reminiscences, Volume 2, pages 172-73.)
Credits
Illustration of Petersen’s Boarding House from Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Volume 2, page 173. Online, courtesy Google
Books.
Quoted passage from the same work, pages 172-173.
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