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	Presidential Physician: Charles A. Gatch

Presidents

Abraham Lincoln

- Immediately after assassination shooting: consultant physician

Notes

1. Gatch was the third or fourth physician to reach Lincoln' s box in Ford's Theater.
 

2. He had ``served through the war with the armies of General Rosecrans.'' [Kunhardt p45]
 

3. Roos names him as C.D. Gatch

References

• Roos CA. Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: a bibliography. Bull Med Library Assoc. 1961; 49(3): 291-360.
 

• Kunhardt DM, Kunhardt PB Jr. 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.