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3 days ago · Edwin M. Stanton personally directed the operation, authorizing rewards of US$50,000 (equivalent to $995,217 in 2023) for Booth and $25,000 each for Herold and John Surratt. Booth and Herold were sleeping at Garrett's farm on April 26 when soldiers from the 16th New York Cavalry arrived, surrounded the barn, and threatened to set fire to it ...
4 days ago · I'm also pleased to see so many outstanding Department of Defense and Army leaders with us today. ... Secretary of War Edwin Stanton welcomed the surviving raiders to Washington. And he presented ...
4 days ago · Edwin M. Stanton, a well-known lawyer appointed to the secretaryship on January 20, 1862, was equally untutored in military affairs, but he was fully as active a participant as his superior.
1 day ago · Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton awarded some of the raiders with the first Medal of Honor. Private Jacob Wilson Parrott, who had been physically abused as a prisoner, was awarded the first. Later all but two of the other soldiers also received the medals, with posthumous awards to families for those who had been executed.
4 days ago · As Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton was not in Washington at the time, Grant appealed directly to Lincoln for permission to terminate Butler, noting "there is a lack of confidence felt in [Butler's] military ability".
4 days ago · In correspondence with Rhode Island Gov. William Sprague September 19, 1862, Union Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton expressed the view of the general staff that snipers were best organized in units no larger than companies and attached to regular regiments for special deployment at a field general's order in a specific action.
3 days ago · The field orders followed a series of conversations between Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Radical Republican abolitionists Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens [1] following disruptions to the institution of slavery provoked by the American Civil War.
