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Revenge for the Confederate States. On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [ 2 ] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen ...
A, 11th New York Infantry Regiment, who killed James Jackson after he murdered Col. Ellsworth. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Photographs by Mathew Brady [1] Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (April 11, 1837 – May 24, 1861) was a United States Army officer and law ...
Battles/wars. American Civil War. Signature. Sergeant Thomas H. " Boston " Corbett (January 29, 1832 – disappeared c. May 26, 1888) was an English-born American soldier and milliner who killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln on April 26, 1865. Known for his devout religious beliefs and eccentric behavior, Corbett ...
William T. Anderson. William T. Anderson[a] (c. 1840 – October 26, 1864), known by the nickname " Bloody Bill " Anderson, was a soldier who was one of the deadliest and most notorious Confederate guerrilla leaders in the American Civil War. Anderson led a band of volunteer partisan raiders who targeted Union loyalists and federal soldiers in ...
July 3, 1864. 48. Member of the North Carolina Senate (1857–59) Member of the North Carolina House of Commons (1843–45; 1851–55) Democrat. Confederacy. Lawyer. Died from wounds received in a skirmish with a party of Tennessee Unionists after a raid on Camp Vance by the Union's 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry.
Category. : Military personnel killed in the American Civil War. Notable military personnel who were among the more than 215,000 American soldiers, marines, and sailors were killed in action or mortally wounded during the American Civil War. It does not include those who died of disease or accident during the war, or after the war as a result ...
American Civil War. Thornsbury Bailey Brown (May 15, 1829 – May 22, 1861) of Taylor County, Virginia (now West Virginia) is generally considered the first Union soldier killed by a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. Brown, a member of a Virginia militia or volunteer company which supported the Union with the grade of private ...
Confederate States Army. Years of service. 1862–1864. Battles/wars. American Civil War. Franklin–Nashville campaign. Battle of Johnsonville. John W. "Jack" Hinson, nicknamed "Old Jack" (c. 1807 – 28 April 1874) was a farmer in Stewart County, Tennessee, who operated as a Confederate partisan sniper in the Between-the-Rivers region of ...