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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The attempt to Fasten the assassination of President Lincoln on President Davis and other innocent parties. (search)
hether anything was said at that time on the subject of commissions from the rebel authorities in his hand, in blank? A.--He had commissions, and conferred one on Booth. I am not so positive whether he had conferred it on Booth then or not; but he told me, either then or subsequently, that Booth had been commissioned, and that evBooth then or not; but he told me, either then or subsequently, that Booth had been commissioned, and that everybody engaged in the enterprise would be commissioned; and if it succeeded or failed, and they escaped to Canada, they could. not be successfully claimed under the Extradition Treaty. The fact is fully shown in the testimony herewith: First, that Mr. Thompson was not in Montreal at any time from the 1st of January to the 14thBooth had been commissioned, and that everybody engaged in the enterprise would be commissioned; and if it succeeded or failed, and they escaped to Canada, they could. not be successfully claimed under the Extradition Treaty. The fact is fully shown in the testimony herewith: First, that Mr. Thompson was not in Montreal at any time from the 1st of January to the 14th of February, being in the city of Toronto, nearly 350 miles distant; and second, by referring to page 27, it will be seen from the letter of this man Conover, certified to be genuine by United States Counsel, General John F. Potter, that up to the 20th of March after, he did not even know Mr. Thompson, and was then seeking his acq
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of the First Maryland regiment. (search)
to an average strength of about eighty. The regiment thus organized was composed of Company A, Captain W. W. Goldsborough: First Lieutenant, G. K. Shellman; Second Lieutenants, Charles W. Blair and G. M. E. Shearer. Company B, Captain C. C. Edelin: First Lieutenant, James Mullen; Second Lieutenant, Thomas Costello. Company C, Captain E. R. Dorsey: First Lieutenant, S. H. Stewart; Second Lieutenants, R. C. Smith and William Thomas. Company D, Captain James R. Herbert: First Lieutenant, G. W. Booth; Second Lieutenants, W. Key Howard and Nicholas Snowden. Company E, Captain H. McCoy: First Lieutenant, E. W. O'Brien; Second Lieutenants, Jos. G. W. Marriott and John Cushing. Company F, Captain J. Louis Smith: First Lieutenant, Thomas Holbrook; Second Lieutenants, Jos. Stewart and W. J. Broad-foot. Company G, Captain Wilson C. Nicholas: First Lieutenant, Alexander Cross; Second Lieutenant, E. P. Deppish. Company H, Captain William H. Murray: First Lieutenant, George Thomas; Second Li
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
s were elected July 22nd: President, Brigadier-General Bradley T. Johnson. Board of Governors: Major-General I. R. Trimble; Brigadier-General George H. Steuart; Lieutenant-Colonel Jas. R. Herbert; Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Carter Smith; Captain Jno. W. Torsch; Captain McHenry Howard: Lieutenant W. P. Zollinger; Sergeant Wm. H. Pope; Private Ridgley Howard; Private George C. Jenkins; Private Frederick Marston. Corresponding Secretary, Surgeon Jno. N. Monmonier. Recording Secretary, Captain Geo. W. Booth. Treasurer, Private Lamar Hollyday. The Association is proceeding vigorously to carry out its objects, the chief of which (besides its social and benevolent features) are to collect, preserve and perpetuate all such evidence as can be found, of the services of the Maryland Line in the Army of Northern Virginia, and of all other Marylanders in the military and naval service of the Confederate States, and to make a complete record of their names and achievements, so as to present t
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
eorge H. Taylor. Levi P. Thompson. George O. Tyler. Charles C. Wehrun. Henry C. Wells. Thomas R. Wells. Edward E. White. William H. Whitney. John B. Whorf. John Wilder. John C. Willey. Andrew Wilson. John T. Wilson. J. Henry Wyman. Brevet Captain. Benjamin Vaughn. Surgeons. Alfred F. Holt. Anson P. Hooker. Alfred A. Stocker. A. Carter Webber. Assistant Surgeon. Henry O. Marcy. First Lieutenants. John S. Allanson. William B. Allyn. John Bigelow. George W. Booth. William 8. Buck. Isaac H. Bullard. John H. Butler. A. L. Chamberlain. Daniel H. Chamberlain. Frederick Chandler. William H. Clark. Theodore Collamore. Marcus M. Collis. John H. Conant. George H. Copeland. Calvin A. Damon. Henry C. Dana. Charles M. Duren. Gerald Fitzgerald. Charles F. Foster. John C. GalFney. Thomas L. Harmon. John C. Heymer. Charles V. Holt, George H. Howard. Eli P. Kinsley. Thomas J. Langley. James R. Lawrence. Edward M. Livermore. C
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 4 (search)
try, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., May 16, 1861. Mustered out, Aug. 2, 1861. Private, 26th Mass. Infantry, Sept., 1861. Second Lieutenant, Sept. 24, 1861. First Lieutenant, Feb. 11, 1863. Captain, Oct. 18, 1864. Major, Dec. 11, 1864; not mustered. Mustered out, as Captain, Aug. 26, 1865. First Lieutenant, 27th U. S. Infantry, July 28, 1866. See U. S. Army. Booth, George. Second Lieutenant, 9th Battery, Mass. Light Artillery, Jan. 1, 1865. Mustered out, June 6, 1865. Booth, George W. First Lieutenant, 11th Battery Mass. Light Artillery, Jan. 2, 1864. Mustered out, June 16, 1865. Borden, Thomas J. First Lieutenant, 5th Unattached Company, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., May 4, 1864. Mustered out, Aug. 2, 1864. Bosworth, John C. Second Lieutenant, 7th Mass. Infantry, Mar. 26, 1863. Mustered out, Oct. 23, 1863. Bott, Thomas E. First Sergeant, 11th Mass. Infantry, Mar. 17, 1864. First Lieutenant, July 23, 1864. Captain, Mar. 2, 1865. Mustere
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
Bogle, Archibald, 247, 401, 485, 508 Boles, A. J., 607 Boles, J. A., 401, 508 Bolles, J. A., 622 Bolles, J. A, 170, 401, 508 Bolles, J. H., 16 Bolles, Matthew, Jr., 160 Bolson, Samuel, 16 Bolster, G. W., 247 Bolton, W. H., 16 Bond, Edwin, 16 Bond, F. S., 456, 459 Bond, H. M., 247, 622 Bond, N. F., 207, 247, 508 Bond, S. B., 247, 508 Bond, W. L., 378 Bond, W. S., 247 Bonney, H. M., 16 Bonney, I. H., 247 Bonney, Seth, 247, 401 Boomer, Ephraim, 16 Boomer, G. B., 459 Booth, G. W., 247 Booth, George, 247 Borden, A. S., 16 Borden, H. C., 16 Borden, H. S., 16 Borden, I. H., 16 Borden, N. C., 16 Borden, P. S., 16 Borden, T. J., 247 Borden, W. C., 16 Boss, O. P., 498 Boss, R. P., 16 Bosson, C. P., 607 Bosworth, J. C., 247 Bott, T. E., 247 Boucher, Michael, 247 Bourne, B. C., 16 Bourne, E. L., 16 Bourne, G. W., 16 Bourne, R. T., 247 Boutwell, G. S., 624 Bouve, E. T., 247, 459 Bowden, Nicholas, 247 Bowden, T. G., 247 Bowditch, C. P., 247 Bowditch
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: Maryland artillery—Second Maryland regiment infantry—First Maryland cavalry. (search)
yland cavalry was organized at Winchester, Va., on the 25th of November, 1862, with— Major, Ridgely Brown. Adjutant, George W. Booth. Assistant Quartermaster, Capt. Ignatius Dorsey. Surgeon, Wilbur R. McKnew. Sergeant-Major, Edward Johnson. e. Its only approach was by a path, along which only two could charge abreast. Brown took charge and with his adjutant, Booth, led the forlorn hope. With a small number of men they got up to the side of the house, and by sticking close to the walrough the crevices with their revolvers, managed for some moments to live. Brown was shouting for fire, when both he and Booth were shot through the leg from muskets poked through the cracks at them. But the fire was got up and the house set in flral in its rank and file. All the field and staff were wounded. After a few days Colonel Brown's, Major Smith's and Captain Booth's wounds became so bad that they had to be sent to the rear, when Capt. Frank A. Bond was assigned to the command.
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: the Maryland Line. (search)
ere: First Maryland cavalry, Lieut.-Col. Ridgely Brown; Maj. Robert Couter Smith; Adjutants George W. Booth, Tom Eager Howard Post. Second Maryland infantry: Captain J. Parran Crane commanding; Liin G. Roberts. The field and staff consisted of: Bradley T. Johnson, colonel commanding; George W. Booth, captain and A. A. G.; Wilson Carey Nicholas, captain and A. I. G.; George H. Kyle, major ae usual badge of military mourning for thirty days. By order of Col. Bradley T. Johnson, George W. Booth, A. A. G. The Maryland cavalry under Colonel Johnson took a conspicuous and useful part ind. In a few days Colonel Johnson received his commission of brigadier-general. He made Capt. George W. Booth assistant adjutant-general of brigade, Booth having been his adjutant with the First MarBooth having been his adjutant with the First Maryland infantry and with the Maryland Line at Hanover Junction, and for gallantry, for intelligence, for industry, for zeal, for self control and cool courage being unexcelled by any man high or low i
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), chapter 11 (search)
sey, March 18, 1862. Majors—Bradley T. Johnson, June 17, 1861; E. R. Dorsey, July 21, 1861. Acting—Adjutants, Lieutenant Frank X. Ward, Company H; Lieutenant George W. Booth, Company D. Surgeons, E. T. Galliard, R. P. Johnson. Assistant-Surgeons, Styles Kennedy, Thos. S. Latimer. Captain and A. Q. M., Grafton D. Spurrier, n. Corporals, Chas. A. Arnold, John O'Loughlin, Frank S. Price, Henry C. Scott. Musician, Hosea Pitt. Company D—Captain, James R. Herbert. First-Lieutenant, Geo. W. Booth. Second-Lieutenant, Wm. Key Howard, Nicholas Snowden. First-Sergeant, Geo. F. Ruff. Sergeants, Chas. J. Wegner, Wm. H. Slingluff, Edward L. King, Mason E. McKalry. Field and staff. Lieutenant-Colonels—Ridgely Brown, Robert Carter Smith, Gus. W. Dorsey. Majors-Ridgely Brown, Robert Carter Smith. Adjutants-Geo. W. Booth, John E. H. Post. Assistant-Surgeon—Wilbur R. McKnew; A. Q. M., Ignatius W. Dorsey; Sergeant-Majors, Edward Johnson, John E. H. Post, Arthur Bond; Quarte
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
and Navy society, and of the Association of the Maryland Line, and he contributed largely in effort and influence to the establishment of the Home for Confederate veterans. Now, in the fullness of honors and in complete assurance of the love of his old comrades, he is living in retirement in his Virginia home. The State holds him in reverence as one of its heroes, worthy of a place with Howard, Smallwood and Gist, of the Revolution, as their honored successor in the Maryland Line. George W. Booth. Brigadier-General Joseph Lancaster Brent Brigadier-General Joseph Lancaster Brent, of Baltimore, distinguished for his service in various arms of the Confederate military forces, was born in Charles county, Maryland, in 1826. He was reared at his native place, and attended college at Georgetown, D. C. When the war broke out, he was in California, but the ties of sympathy were too strong to be overcome by his great distance from home, and he took ship for the seat of war, in compan
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