Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
14th New York Heavy Artillery; 24th New York Cavalry (dismounted) 2nd Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery; Artillery Maine Light, 2nd Battery (B) Massachusetts Light, 14th Battery; Second Division BG Robert B. Potter. 1st Brigade Col John I. Curtin. 36th Massachusetts; 58th Massachusetts; 51st New York; 45th Pennsylvania; 48th Pennsylvania
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.
116th New York: Cpt John Higgins; 2nd Brigade BG Godfrey Weitzel [1] Col Stephen Thomas [2] 12th Connecticut: Ltc Frank H. Peck (w) 75th New York: Col Robert B. Merritt; 114th New York: Col Elisha B. Smith (mw) 160th New York: Ltc John B. Van Petten; 176th New York: Cols Charles C. Nott, Ambrose Stevens, Charles Lewis; 8th Vermont: Col Stephen ...
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]
The surplus men recruited were ordered transferred to the 6th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment in April 1864, and in May 1864, a large number of men were transferred to the 81st New York Volunteer Infantry and 148th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment and 270 to the 1st Regiment New York Mounted Rifles. Regiment concentrated at Washington ...
Of the 38 New York regiments, except the Fifth, the 16th New York Infantry Regiment lost the most men among all the other regiments who served for the same length and time. [14] Furthermore, a total of 111 men passed away due to serious wounds, with 107 of them being enlisted men and 4 of them were officers. [ 14 ]