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To the president s side. This is at the petersons house directly across the street from fords theater. Barnes calls for something called a probe and when he founted that in the back here on display. The idea with the probe was that it would be threaded into the wound with the idea that depending on how far into the wound the probe would go might identify where the fragment or bullet was. They werent able to do so. The bullet they found later ended up being lodged behind lincolns right eye. But the probe was retained and eventually made its way into the museums holdings and is part of the exhibit we have here on display. Surgeon general barnes and Army Medical Museum staff John Woodward and another surgeon named Edward Curtis were at the president s bedside in the hours before he died, which was about 7 22 the next morning, the 15th of april, 1865. It was decided then that a postmortem would be performed very quickly and the president s body was removed to the white house and the autops
That exact moment. Curtis reflects on it by saying something to the effect of this is a lead ball for which we cant yet for measure the calams effect. The autopsy is completed and some fragments of lincolns skull were retained by surgeons who assisted at the autopsy and in one case some fragment was stuck on some of dr. Curtis tools and as he was cleaning his surgical kit later that day he found a bit of lincolns skull fragments stuck in one of the saws. We also have on display a bit of lincolns hair removed from the site of the wound during the autopsy. Several locks of hair are accounted for in the notes from those hours before lincoln died and during his autopsy. These are just a few of those that were cut and given away to different people. Another object, though, thats on display relates again to dr. Curtis. Edward curtis, a staff on the medical museum was an assistant at the autopsy. When he got home that night, the 15th of april, after the autopsy, he discovered that his undersh
The british suddenly find they have to worry about a french navy. The United States doesnt have much of a navy to threaten the british fleet, but france does. So they have to worry about that. The british have to worry about being invaded. Guys like Benjamin Franklin working with lafayette in france work on the king to try to get some invasion of england going. Youll have to worry if you are Great Britain about islands in the caribbean, youll be fighting in asia, africa, all over the world. So a lot of resources suddenly arent coming here to north america which makes George Washingtons life easier. Well get money from france. Well get supplies from france. Well get french troops, plus that french navy. If you think of our victory at york town, probably the biggest of the war, were probably not going to get that victory without the french navy. Eventually the war slowly, and it is slowly, turns in our favor. 1783, back in paris, john adams and Benjamin Franklin sign a peace treaty. Its
Throughout its history. Pennsylvania has a very different setup. It proves to be too radical to work. And its only going to last about 17 years. Theyll have to redo it and go to the traditional governor, two houses of legislature setup. In 1776, each of these states is going to start itself over. Now the problem is, being all a little bit different, and one of my colleagues loves to talk about that today. We still have differences from state to state as far as speed limits and little rules for driving are going to be different. And so we still have some of those vestiges there. Now what do we have in the way of government . State governments, very much hold the cards. There is our Continental Congress. Now the articles of confederation sets the rules for the Continental Congress. Thats an idea that comes into this room with Benjamin Franklin. At the very beginning of the war, its an idea he dusted off from the 1750s during the french and indian war. This idea of confederation between t