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The officers of the Navy and Marine Corps on duty and resident in
Washington will assemble to-morrow, the 23d instant, at 3 o'clock p.m.,
at the east front of the Capitol, in full dress, to accompany the
remains of the late President Garfield to the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad depot.
Commander H.L. Howison, United States Navy, is hereby appointed
adjutant, and will direct the formation of the officers of the Navy and
Marine Corps.
ED. T. NICHOLS,
_Acting Secretary of the Navy._
[From the Medical Record, New York, 1881, vol. 20, p. 364.]
OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE AUTOPSY ON THE BODY OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
The following official bulletin was prepared by the surgeons who have
been in attendance upon the late President:
By previous Arrangement a _post-mortem_ examination of the body of
President Garfield was made this afternoon in the presence and with the
assistance of Drs. Hamilton, Agnew, Bliss, Barnes, Woodward, Reyburn,
Andrew H. Smith, of Elberon, and Acting Assistant Surgeon D.S. Lamb, of
the Army Medical Museum, of Washington. The operation was performed by
Dr. Lamb. It was found that the ball, after fracturing the right
eleventh rib, had passed through the spinal column in front of the
spinal cord, fracturing the body of the first lumbar vertebra, driving a
number of small fragments of bone into the adjacent soft parts, and
lodging below the pancreas, about 2-1/2 inches to the left of the spine
and behind the peritoneum, where it had become completely encysted.
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