SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE, }
WASHINGTON CITY, _March 20, 1867_. }
Col. J. B. BACHELDER.
SIR:--The picture of "The Last Hours of Lincoln." painted by Alonzo
Chappel from your design, presents, with remarkable fidelity, the
portraits of those in attendance at various times during the night of
April 14, 1865, preserving truthfully the principal features of that
most sad event.
Very respectfully yours,
J. K. BARNES. _Surgeon-General, U.S.A., Brevet Major-General._
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It is certainly a work of great interest and merit. I have looked upon
it with the liveliest satisfaction on account of its singularly graphic
delineation of the actual scene as myself beheld it, and also because
the likenesses of most of the distinguished persons presented by the
painting seem to me to be very accurate and striking.