The Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln by Alonzo Chappel, 1868
Designed by John B. Bachelder and painted by Alonzo Chappel, this work of art depicts those who visited the dying president throughout the night and early morning of April 14–15, 1865. These people did not visit Lincoln at the same time: they could not have all fit in the small first-floor room of the Petersen House. Lincoln’s wife, Mary, is pictured in the center, lying across the president’s body. His son Robert stands in the foreground to the right of the bed. Vice President Andrew Johnson is seated at the far left. The list is "Surrounding the death-bed of the President were Secretaries STANTON, WELLES, USHER, Attorney-General SPEED, Postmaster-General DENNISON, M.B. FIELD, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Judge OTTO, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Gen. HALLECK, Gen. MIEGS, Senator SUMMER, R.F. ANDREWS, of New-York; Gen. TODD, of Dacotah; JOH HAY, Private Secretary; Gov. OGLESBY, of Illinois; Gen. FARNSWORTH, Mrs. And Miss KENNEY, Miss HARRIS, Capt. ROBERT LINCOLN, son of the President, and Doctors E.W. ABBOTT, B.K. STONE, C.D. GATCH, Neal HALL, and Mr. LIEBERMAN. Secretary MCCULLOCH remained with the President until about 5 o'clock, and Chief-Justice CHASE, after sev
- Date
- 1868
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- painting
- Original size
- 4,800 × 2,699 pixels
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