Presidential Physician: Charles A. Gatch
Presidents
Notes
- Gatch was the third or fourth physician to reach Lincoln' s box in Ford's Theater.
- He had ``served through the war with the armies of General Rosecrans.'' [Kunhardt p45]
- 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.