Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
WELLES, Gideon (1802-1878). Lincoln and Johnson's Secretary of the Navy, known as "Old Neptune," a man of great integrity, who wrote an incisive diary of his time in Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet. Partly-Printed Check Signed, "Gideon Welles," drawn on Riggs & Company, Washington, D.C., payable to Mrs. Dr. Stone for the huge amount of $600, March 5, 1868. Fine condition. Interestingly, it was Dr. Stone who was the Attending Physician at President Abraham Lincoln's bedside, the night of his assassination. In his report to Gen. Butler, Dr. Leale said he asked Dr. Stone if he would take charge and that Stone said 'I will.' (Other sources say Surgeon General [J.K.] Barnes assumed responsibility when he arrived.)" It's not clear that Dr. Stone did much for the patient since the other attending physicians had already probed the head wound with their fingers and the President was clearly dying. Another examination was made by Dr. Barnes with a porcelain probe around 2 A.M. At regular intervals, President Lincoln's pulse was checked by Dr. Barnes. Apparently, Dr. Stone was given the job of telling Robert Todd Lincoln of his father's fatal condition. He kept watch from the foot of the President's bed.
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