(ABRAHAM LINCOLN) Class portrait of James Suydam Knox an eye

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Class portrait of James Suydam Knox, an eyewitness to the Lincoln assassination. Salt print, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches oval, on original plain mount, 12 x 9 1/4 inches, with manuscript caption "Jas. S. Knox, New York, 1860"; apparently disbound from a Princeton College album. [Princeton, NJ], 1860

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James Suydam Knox (1840–1892) was a Long Island native who graduated from Princeton in 1860 and then enlisted in a New Jersey regiment in the Civil War. He soon moved into hospital duty, which brought him to Washington in early 1865, and he was in the audience at Ford's Theatre on the night of 14 April. The letter he wrote to his father the next day is one of the best eyewitness accounts of the Lincoln assassination. He went on to a distinguished medical career in New Jersey and Chicago.