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Edwin Stanton. Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War. Stanton's management helped organize the massive military resources of the North and guide the Union to victory.
John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre. Drawing from glass-slide depiction c. 1865–75. On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play ...
Dahlgren affair. The Dahlgren affair was an incident during the American Civil War which stemmed from a failed Union raid on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia in March 1864. Brigadier General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick and Colonel Ulric Dahlgren led an attack on Richmond to free Union prisoners from Belle Isle and damage Confederate ...
It was Stanton, one of Lincoln’s former rivals, who led the charge to track down Booth (played in the series by Anthony Boyle), while also fighting to keep Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans in place.
Viewers will follow three tracks, in a way, during Manhunt: Stanton's journey to discover the full extent of the conspiracy that led to Lincoln's assassination, Booth's escape from the scene of ...
Manhunt’s pilot opens on Lincoln’s assassination, and the rest of the series splits into two main plotlines that follow Stanton’s search for Booth and Booth on the run, respectively. As the ...
October 15, 1966. Designated NHS. February 12, 2017. The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house in the United States in Washington, D.C., located at 516 10th Street NW, several blocks east of the White House. On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died there after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre ...
For star Tobias Menzies, who plays Stanton, Manhunt "felt like quite an important story to be retelling at this juncture." He continues, "It's obviously a moment in U.S. history of a great ...