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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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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.
C. 1st New York Cavalry Regiment; 2nd New York Cavalry Regiment; 3rd New York Cavalry Regiment; 3rd New York Provisional Cavalry Regiment; 4th New York Provisional Cavalry Regiment
3rd New Hampshire; 7th New Hampshire; 16th New York Heavy Artillery (7 companies) Third Brigade Col Harris M. Plaisted. 10th Connecticut; 11th Maine; 24th Massachusetts; 100th New York; Second Division BG Robert S. Foster. First Brigade Col Newton Martin Curtis. 3rd New York; 112th New York; 117th New York; 142nd New York; Second Brigade
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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 ]
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 ...