Alaska names mountain peak for Civil War hero, undated.

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Alaska names mountain peak for Civil War hero, undated.

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Manuscript relating to the naming of Mount Sergeant Robinson in Alaska, in the Chugach Mountains, after Sgt. George Foster Robinson, Company B, 8th Maine Volunteers. On Apr. 14, 1865 Robinson thwarted the assassination attempt on Secretary of State William H. Seward, being himself severely wounded in action. This assassination attempt took place same evening the President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

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United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1866). Company B

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Corliss, Carlton J. (Carlton Jonathan), 1888-

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Railroad worker, author. Carlton Corliss was born in Crystal, Main, April 20, 1888. Following his education, Corliss entered the railroad service as an office boy in Boston in 1905. From 1909-1914 he was the Chief Clerk for the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. From 1916-1936 he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad Company in Chicago. He was also the associate editor of the Illinois Central Magazine. Corliss was the manager of the Publ...

Seward, William Foote, 1853-1928

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Robinson, George Foster

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George Foster Robinson (1832-1907), Sergeant of Co. B. of the 8th Regiment of Maine Infantry. On the night of Apr. 14, Robinson, then a convalescent patient of Douglas Hospital in Washington, D.C., detailed as an attending nurse to William H. Seward, thwarted the assassintaion attempt on the Secretary of State. Robinson was discharged from the Army on May 19, 1865, and in June was appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department. In January of 1869 he was appointed a clerk in the Quartermaster Gener...