Doctor for Clermont County, Ohio. The son of Lewis and Maria (Newton) Gatch, he was interested in medicine and became a doctor. In March 1865, he was home on furlough from the regiment, when his brother, Captain Oliver Cross Gatch, returned home after being a prisoner of the Confederates for 17 months. His brother had been ordered to Washington DC for further assignment following his furlough, so Charles decided to accompany his brother to Washington DC. [a family account says they went to Washington to collect 2 years back-pay] The two men arrived on the morning of April 14, 1865, and decided to attend a theater play that evening. They were in Ford's Theater and observed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln that evening. With the end of the war, Charles Gatch was released from future military service, and he returned to his home in Ohio, where he became the principal physician of Milford, Ohio. A member of the Clermont County Medical Association, he was appointed to the Clermont County Board of Health on June 10, 1867. He resided in Clermont County until his death three years later.
[bio by Kit and Morgan Benson]
Elected to membership in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine in 1858. Served in the Civil War. Attended the same play as Lincoln, possibly attended to him after he was shot (jury is still out on that one), but was definitely at his death-bed according to the Washington Evening Star published 15 Apr 1865.
[bio by Kit and Morgan Benson]
Elected to membership in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine in 1858. Served in the Civil War. Attended the same play as Lincoln, possibly attended to him after he was shot (jury is still out on that one), but was definitely at his death-bed according to the Washington Evening Star published 15 Apr 1865.
Doctor for Clermont County, Ohio. The son of Lewis and Maria (Newton) Gatch, he was interested in medicine and became a doctor. In March 1865, he was home on furlough from the regiment, when his brother, Captain Oliver Cross Gatch, returned home after being a prisoner of the Confederates for 17 months. His brother had been ordered to Washington DC for further assignment following his furlough, so Charles decided to accompany his brother to Washington DC. [a family account says they went to Washington to collect 2 years back-pay] The two men arrived on the morning of April 14, 1865, and decided to attend a theater play that evening. They were in Ford's Theater and observed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln that evening. With the end of the war, Charles Gatch was released from future military service, and he returned to his home in Ohio, where he became the principal physician of Milford, Ohio. A member of the Clermont County Medical Association, he was appointed to the Clermont County Board of Health on June 10, 1867. He resided in Clermont County until his death three years later.
[bio by Kit and Morgan Benson]
Elected to membership in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine in 1858. Served in the Civil War. Attended the same play as Lincoln, possibly attended to him after he was shot (jury is still out on that one), but was definitely at his death-bed according to the Washington Evening Star published 15 Apr 1865.
[bio by Kit and Morgan Benson]
Elected to membership in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine in 1858. Served in the Civil War. Attended the same play as Lincoln, possibly attended to him after he was shot (jury is still out on that one), but was definitely at his death-bed according to the Washington Evening Star published 15 Apr 1865.
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