Charles Sabin Taft

Charles Sabin Taft, M.D. was a bystander physician who was pressed into service during the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln's assassination

On April 14, 1865, Taft was in the audience watching the play, Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., when Lincoln was shot. Taft was either the second or third physician to get to the President after the shooting. Due to the assassin having barricaded the entrance to the President's box, he was boosted up from the main floor of the theatre.^[1]

See also

• Anderson Ruffin Abbott
• Joseph K. Barnes
• Julia Taft Bayne
• Charles H. Crane
• Albert Freeman Africanus King
• Charles Augustus Leale

References

1. ^ Kunhardt. Twenty Days. Pg. 42

Sources

• Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve, and Kunhardt Jr., Phillip B. Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights That Followed. New York: Castle Books, 1965.

External links

• Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft 1861-1865
• Tad Lincoln's Father - complete online text

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