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A veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg, Martindale, who belonged to the 20th Connecticut, was killed in the aftermath of the Battle of Atlanta and interred in an unnamed grave at the Marietta National Cemetery. Having identified the grave with the help of historian Brad Quinlin, Broderick's research enabled him to give his ancestor his name back.
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat.. Born to a wealthy family in New York City, Sickles was involved in a number of scandals, most notably the 1859 homicide of his wife's lover, U.S. Attorney Philip Barton Key II, whom Sickles gunned down in broad daylight in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. [2]
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
A Washington state podcast host who was killed by her stalker last week said she had a "deep-seated fear" for her safety, writing in a request for a protection order that the man tormented and ...
The Bixby letter in the Boston Evening Transcript. The Bixby letter is a brief, consoling message sent by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to Lydia Parker Bixby, a widow living in Boston, Massachusetts, who was thought to have lost five sons in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Koenig was born July 1969 in New York City to Julian Koenig and his second wife, Maria Eckhart. [3] Sarah is Jewish. [7] Her father was a well-known copywriter. Her mother is from Tanzania. [8] [9] After her parents' divorce, Sarah's mother married writer Peter Matthiessen. [10] Koenig attended Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts. [11]
Police have now identified the person who was fatally shot Wednesday after gunfire erupted in downtown Kansas City just moments after the Chiefs wrapped up their Super Bowl Victory Parade.Lisa ...