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Actually no, it would have been like Woodrow Wilson where no one was specified. Playing more counterfactual I assume Stanton probably would have run things. The succession issue for incapacity wasn't brought in until the 25th amendment after the Kennedy assasination.
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Modern surgeons tell me the answer would be probably no, we'd still be amputating limbs if we were still shooting non-jacketed low velocity Minnie Balls that shattered bone. I know a tangent to the thread and your point but more evidence that under the circumstances the CW doctors were not total hacksaw happy barbarians as the general public thinks.