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Sergeant Boston Corbett, 16th New York Cavalry, who shot John Wilkes Booth, April 26, 1865. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Photograph by Mathew Brady. The 16th New York Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American ...
1st New York Dragoons Regiment; 5th New York Veteran Infantry Regiment; 16th New York Cavalry Regiment; 16th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment; 17th New York Veteran Infantry Regiment; 19th New York Cavalry Regiment; 24th Independent Battery New York Light Artillery; 178th New York Infantry Regiment
Edward P. Doherty (1838-1897) Edward Paul Doherty (September 26, 1838 – April 3, 1897) was a Canadian-American American Civil War officer who formed and led the detachment of soldiers that captured and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, in a Virginia barn on April 26, 1865, twelve days after Booth had fatally shot Lincoln.
New York Light, 27th Battery; 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery D; 1st Rhode Island Light, Battery H; 2nd United States, Battery E; 3rd United States, Battery G; 3rd United States, Batteries L and M; Provisional Brigade [16] Col Elisha G. Marshall 2nd New York Mounted Rifles (dismounted) [17] 14th New York Heavy Artillery; 24th New York Cavalry ...
Jeff. Davis Legion, a cavalry regiment; Kemper Legion, a company of the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Pee Dee Legion, the 9th South Carolina Infantry Battalion [8] Rucker's Legion, also known as 1st East Tennessee Legion. This formation, commanded by Col. Edmund Rucker, consisted of the 12th and 16th Tennessee Cavalry Battalions.
Hall was born in New York on November 16, 1827, and entered service at Plattsburgh, New York in October 1862. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism shown on May 3, 1863, at the Battle of Salem Church , while serving as a Chaplain with the 16th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment .
A. 1st New York Light Artillery Battalion; Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery; 13th Independent Battery New York Light Artillery; Battery C, 1st New York Light Artillery
Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer, commanding officer of the 16th New York, was appointed commander of the new regiment. The 3rd Provisional NY Cavalry was honorably discharged and mustered out on September 21, 1865, at Camp Barry near Washington, D. C., having lost by death from disease and other causes, four enlisted men. [1]