Search results
In 1864, the 23d Ohio was incorporated into Maj. Gen. George Crook’s Army of West Virginia. Over the next year and a half, McKinley and his regiment saw action at the Battles of Lexington, Lynchburg, Winchester, and Cedar Creek (all in Virginia). At Cedar Creek in October 1864, McKinley’s horse was shot out from under him, which pinned him ...
Dec 14, 2021 · Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, was gunned down by three men while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York City on February 21, 1964. He was 39.
Nov 22, 2023 · U.S. President. John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States on January 20, 1961. Delivering his legendary inaugural address on January 20, 1961, Kennedy sought to ...
William Henry Lewis. Birth. 14 Nov 1886. Death. 18 Feb 1958 (aged 71) Burial. Show Low Cemetery. Show Low, Navajo County, Arizona, USA Add to Map. Memorial ID.
On November 14, 1862, Russell dined at Seward’s with Henry Raymond of the New York Times when the President arrived and told a few stories. “Here, Mr. President, we have got the two Times – of New York and of London – if they would only do what is right and what we want, all will go well,” said one of the guests.
Lewis Powell was the youngest boy in a family of eight children. He spent the first three years of his life in Randolph County, Alabama, the next twelve in two rural Georgia counties, and the two years before his departure to join the Confederate Army at age seventeen in Live Oak, Florida. Powell's father was a Baptist minister, school master ...
Investigating the Assassination. Before John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, he had been plotting some kind of drastic action for months. He had met with co-conspirators planning to kidnap Lincoln. But after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops on April 9, Booth’s ...
