William A.F. Stockton letter 1865.

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William A.F. Stockton letter 1865.

The Pennsylvania Volunteers 140th Regiment records contain a letter written by a soldier to his cousin on April 15, 1865. The letter recalls the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the "rumored" assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theater. The letter also gives the total loss of troops in the campaign and the plundering of General Longstreet's baggage train.

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Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

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U.S. railroad commissioner, army officer, and diplomat. From the description of James Longstreet papers, 1858-circa 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980713 James Longstreet, military man, businessman, diplomat, and railway commissioner, was born 8 January 1821, in Edgefield District, South Carolina, and died 2 January 1904, in Gainesville, Georgia. He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (1842) and served in the Mexican War before he resigned from the U.S. Army ...

United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 140th.

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Stockton, William A. F., d. 1877.

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The 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment was organized on September 8, 1862. The regiment took part in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Petersburg Crater. William A.F. Stockton was the son of Rev. John Stockton of Cross Creek (Washington County, Pa.). He served in Company K as a Captain until brevetted Major on April 9, 1865. He died in North Carolina in 1877. From the description of William A.F. Stockton letter 1865. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat ...

Stockton, William A. F.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...