A Doctor's View of the Lincoln Assassination Ever since President Abraham Lincoln's assassination in , questions, rumors and speculation have surrounded the medical aspects of his death and those connected with it. If the president had been rushed to a modern-day emergency room, would he have survived? Why wasn't he returned to the White House to die in his own bed?
Did he bleed to death after being shot? Even if he hadn't been killed, would some hidden medical problem have cut short his second term? Did his assassin escape his pursuers to live a long life? Did he commit suicide in the Virginia tobacco barn where he was apprehended? Guelzo believes Lincoln would have encouraged blacks to move out of the South into the vast expanses of the West where they could start anew as landowners, railroad workers and settlers.
Western cities might have become home to significant black communities, like Chicago, Atlanta or Washington, D. The South would also have been scrubbed of Confederate leaders who persisted in their belief of the "Lost Cause" of the Civil War. Under President Johnson, himself a former slaveowner and also a white southerner who was pro-Union, Confederate leaders were pardoned instead of tried. But he wanted them driven into exile. That would have decapitated the old southern leadership.
However, Lincoln likely would have keenly supported former Confederate states being delayed readmission to the Union until they adhered to a basic programme of, at the very least, adopting the 13th Amendment the abolition of slavery and other essential points, such as the redistribution of property to freed people. Lincoln would have looked to literally rebuild the nation, too, with a concerted push for infrastructure improvements.
One concerning potential consequence of a Reconstruction with Lincoln as president is the possibility of alterations to the 14th Amendment. Notably, it defined citizenship for the first time, included African American people and guaranteed those citizens equal rights under the law. The final clause then gives Congress the authority to enforce the amendment — a revolutionary move making citizenship a federal matter.
So a more moderate approach spearheaded by Lincoln may have meant more moderate, less centralising language. Booth and co-conspirator David Herold raced from the Surratt tavern to the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd, a known Southern sympathizer, seeking medical attention for Booth's broken leg.
Mudd House Museum. Mudd was tried by a military commission on conspiracy and harboring charges and received a life sentence. President Andrew Johnson pardoned him in The train bearing the body of President Lincoln made its first stop in Baltimore. The museum will have a funeral cortege re-enactment on April , along with artifacts and exhibits related to the assassination. Actor Fritz Klein, over the next few weeks, will portray Lincoln at many of the cities where the funeral train made a stop.
His talk will include Lincoln's support for the 13th Amendment, which formally abolished slavery. But he won't bring up what happened at Ford's Theatre. Rather, the focus is resolutely facing forward, said Tim Good of the National Park Service, which has organized the appearances. A flag with stars spelling out the word "Free" was attached to a sandwich vendor's cart at Lincoln's funeral. A vault temporarily held the remains of President Lincoln at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, while a permanent tomb was constructed.
The Lincoln Funeral Coalition in early May is re-creating the solemn funeral procession through town, with an ending ceremony at the cemetery. A replica of Lincoln's hearse was built by three teams.
My hope is that people learn the history of this and experience to the best of our ability what occurred in ," said coalition Chairwoman Katie Spindell. The re-creation of the funeral procession in Springfield will pass the Lincoln Home National Historic Site , which will be draped for mourning.
The Lincolns and their boys lived in the home from to early The sitting room was a popular gathering place "where Lincoln and his family would relax. He would wrestle with the boys on the floor and read out loud to them," said Laura Gundrum, chief of interpretation. Curator Susan Haake said Mary Lincoln was known for making a very good white almond cake. He would surely have taken up cherished and deferred domestic priorities, too, particularly "internal improvements" as they were called: roads, canals, bridges, and railroads -- projects he had long championed.
Lincoln might well have become "the infrastructure president. Free college for all? Lincoln had signed the law authorizing the first land grant colleges, schools that evolved into today's state universities, not to mention Cornell. Count on his becoming the "education president," too.
0コメント