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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 ...
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1st Brigade: Cpt Robert Loudon (Detachments of 1st Connecticut, 2nd Ohio, 18th Pennsylvania, 2nd, 3rd and 5th New York cavalry regiments) 2nd Brigade: Lt George W. Byard (Detachments of 8th Illinois, 3rd Indiana, 1st Ohio, 1st Vermont, 8th, 22nd and 25th New York cavalry regiments) District of Alexandria [17] BG John P. Slough (not engaged)
16th New York Cavalry Regiment; 19th New York Cavalry Regiment; ... 2nd New York Veteran Cavalry Regiment; D. 1st New York Dragoons Regiment; E. 1st New York Engineer ...
"Lincoln Cavalry" 1st Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Cavalry: 1st Regiment New York Mounted Rifles: Sometimes referred to as 7th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry: 1st Regiment New York Dragoons: 1st Regiment New York Provisional Cavalry: 2nd Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry "Harris Light" 2nd Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Cavalry
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.
Coleman joined the Union Army in July 1863, claiming to be 18 years old. He served with the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment and 3rd New York Provisional Cavalry Regiment until mustering out in September 1865. [1] He enlisted in the Marine Corps from Brooklyn in January 1870, and retired in August 1893. [2]
General of the Army; trained tank crews in Pennsylvania during World War I; World War II; commander of European Theater of Operations and Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (1942–45); 1st Military Governor of American Occupation Zone in Germany (1945); President of Columbia University (1948–50, 1952–53); 1st Supreme Allied ...