From the Richmond Dispatch, 7/14/1881, p. 3, c. 2

The Baltimore American says: Dr. A. Y. P. Garnett, of Washington, who was surgeon-in-chief of the Army of Northern Virginia, and who is unfriendly to Dr. Bliss, says, in his opinion, Guiteau’s bullet did not strike any important organ of the President’s body, and that the wound is a comparatively insignificant one.

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