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16. (1842–1865) A assassination conspirator, he followed LC-B817- 7784 Lewis Powell (a.k.a. Payne) Revised 05.15.2020 on that fateful night to kill Secretary of State William Seward. He waited outside and fled after Powell’s failed stabbing attempt. 14 Totten Herold met up with 15 Herold 16 Forrest in , then traveled to ’s house and 13 Hall David Herold photographed before his 1 Butler ESTABLISHED 1807 on to Dr. ’s. execution, April 1865 Twelve days later they Association for the Preservation of were cornered and Booth was shot. Herold was convicted 2 Brady 12 Baker Historic Congressional and hanged on July 7, 1865 with co-conspirators Surratt, 3 Arsenal Monument Powell and Atzerodt. He was buried on the grounds of what is now Fort McNair, but in 1869 his family petitioned to Walking Tour have his body interred here in a unmarked grave. His sister 11 Henderson A HOUSE DIVIDED: J. Humphreys 6 Elizabeth was buried in the same plot in 1903. R46/S44 A. Humphreys 5 CIVIL WAR 4 Confederate istory comes to life in Congressional Soldiers Cemetery. The creak and clang of the Library of Congress LC-B817- 7795 French 7 8 Almy 10 Pleasonton wrought iron gate signals your arrival into the early decades of our national heritage. 9 Berret The Civil War was arguably the most divisive Hand the most significant four years in the history of the . The war produced almost a million casualties, with over 600,000 men from the two sides dying of wounds, injuries and disease. The repercussions from the war, its aftermath and the Reconstruction era still affect our social conscience The four consipirators at the gallows: Mrs. Surrat, Payne, Herold and Atzerodt, with and political environment. is officers and others, with guards on the wall. the final resting place for over 700 men (approximately A WORD OF CAUTION: The centuries have made many grave 600 Union and 100 Confederate) who fought in the OTHER LINKS TO LINCOLN’S ASSASINATION markers and sites unstable. Please be careful near grave markers Some accounts indicate Lewis Powell hid in a Cemetery and watch where you step: depressions and sink holes lie hidden in war. Generals lie next to privates, and brothers who tomb the night of the assassination before escaping across grass, and footstones and corner markers can trip the unwary. fought on opposite sides rest only a few feet apart. the river in the morning. The Cemetery is also the burial site for many Buried in Congressional Cemetery are: local residents who contributed to the history of the -Emerick Hansell (R86/S152D4), the State Department area and the country during that era. Like the rest courier wounded by Powell during the attempt on Seward The Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Association for the Preservation of of the city, the Cemetery has many ties to Abraham CemeteryJoin is a private, us! nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established in -James Pumphrey (R47/S205), who rented Booth a horse Historic Congressional Cemetery Lincoln—including the graves of the man who took 1976 and dedicated to the restoration, interpretation, and management -John Shelton (R96/S82), a policeman who helped carry 1801 E Street SE the photo reputed to have gotten him elected and a of Congressional Cemetery. It is predominantly a volunteer-based Lincoln to the Peterson house , DC 20003 man who was a co-conspirator in the plot to kill him. organization relying on over 400 neighbors, history buffs, conservators, -Peter Taltavull (R12/S141), owner of the Star Saloon 202-543-0539 | Fax 202-543-5966 dogwalkers, and armed forces personnel each year to help restore and This CIVIL WAR TOUR highlights just a few where Booth grabbed a pre-theatre drink EMAIL: [email protected] maintain this national treasure. In 1979, the Association succeeded of the hundreds of fascinating people buried in -Two of the 16 doctors who tended to Lincoln www.congressionalcemetery.org in having Congressional Cemetery listed on the National Register of Congressional Cemetery. As you walk the trail of this -Seven men who were at Ford’s Theater that night: a Funding for the preservation and maintenance of Historic Congressional Historic Places. It became a National Historic Landmark in 2011. Please Cemetery is provided in part by the Congressional Cemetery Endowment, self-guided letterboxing tour, note the artistry and door keeper, an usher, two members of the audience, two which was created with matching funds provided by the Congress of musicians and a member of the box office staff join the Association or make a donation and help in the third century of the United States and administered by the National Trust for Historic craftsmanship of the memorial stone carvings and try Preservation. The property is owned by Christ Church Washington Parish. -Three men involved in Lincoln’s embalming and burial service to the Nation’s Capital. to decipher the cultural language of the iconography. The following are numbered to correspond with the map on the 5. ANDREW HUMPHREYS (1810–1883) mayoral oath swore his loyalty. He was arrested in August served as its colonel. On October 21, 1861, while leading back. Please also refer to the Range (R)and Site (S) grid numbers The son and grandson of prominent Brady Handy Collection LOC LC-B8172-1423 1861 and imprisoned in New York. After no evidence of a brigade at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff near Leesburg, to help locate each grave site. shipbuilders, he chose to attend West enemy complicity was found, he was released a month later, he was killed, possibly by a militiaman wearing Point. After the Seminole War, he returned to Washington, and then he resigned as mayor. a blue uniform who penetrated Union lines. He was 1. ANDREW PICKENS BUTLER (1769–1857) joined the Corps of Topographical R49/S260 the only sitting senator killed in the war. His body was As a Senator from , he was co-author of Engineers and worked on surveys held in the Public Vault before his final burial in San the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which undermined the of the Delaware and Mississippi 10. (1824–1897) Francisco National Cemetery. PUBLIC VAULT Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowing slavery in a region Rivers. In 1861 he served as a major He is buried next to his father, Stephen, who saved the with McClellan. He led a division where it had previously been prohibited. It is said the first Declaration of Independence and Constitution from 13. MARY ANN HALL (1814–1886) blows of the Civil War were struck defending his honor: in of V Corps at Antietam, and at the British in 1814. A cavalry officer who saw battle Fredericksburg led his division the farthest up Marye’s Listed on Cemetery records as “business woman” or 1856, Sen. (MA) denigrated Butler in the at Antietam and Chancellorsville, he was appointed Heights. His troops supported Sickles’ Gettysburg advance. “entrepreneur,” she was the proprietor of a brothel Senate. Two days later in Senate chambers, Congressman temporary commander of the Cavalry Corps just prior Preston Brooks (SC)—Butler’s cousin—defended his family’s Five days after Gettysburg, Meade appointed him Chief of where the National Museum of the American Indian to Gettysburg. He fought at the Missouri “front,” and honor by caning Sumner viciously. The attack outraged Staff. Four months later he took command of the II Corps now stands. In the 1862 Federal Provost Marshall’s Northerners and transformed the struggling Republican and distinguished himself at the 1865 Battle of Sayler’s after the war reverted from brevet Brigadier General catalog of such institutions (which were not banned in Party into a significant political force. Creek. He became Chief, Corps of Engineers in 1866 until rank to Major. He resigned his commission in 1868 and Washington, D.C. until 1914), hers is rated as the top R60/S84 CENOTAPH his retirement in 1879. R63/S184 later worked for the predecessor of the Internal of its kind. It was regularly frequented by men from Revenue Service, but was dismissed for lobbying all military branches. In 1864 she was charged with 2. (1822–1896) 6. JOSEPH (JOSHUA) HUMPHREYS (1813–1873) Congress to repeal the federal income tax. R42/S245 operating a bawdy house, and maintaining a disorderly Known as the definitive and Brady Handy Collection LOC LC-BH827701-550 Andrew’s younger brother [see above], he served in the U.S. house. The three-day closely-followed trial ended with Navy until 1853. He had married a woman from Virginia prolific Civil War photographer, her guilty of the first charge and innocent of the second. many of his photographs appear and ran a business in Fredericksburg. When the war broke R11/S92 in this brochure. Historians out, he joined the Confederate States (C.S.) Navy. It is credit his 1860 photograph of believed that his marriage and business ties led him to 14. JOSPEH GILBERT TOTTEN (1788–1864) prior to his join the Confederate cause. Any animosity was apparently He served in the and Cooper Union (NY) speech with forgiven since he was brought from Fredericksburg to be in the Mexican War. During the Civil facilitating Lincoln’s election. this family plot. R64/S177 War, he commanded the Corps Brady’s 1862 exhibit, “The Dead of Engineers, and reviewed the on Antietam” was the first time 7. BENJAMIN B. FRENCH (1800–1870) He served as Commissioner of Public defensive ring of forts around citizens saw battlefield carnage. O’ Sullivan Collection LOC LC-B811- 342 LC-B811- LOC Collection Sullivan O’ DC. The remains of Fort Totten, A pauper at death, Brady’s Buildings under Franklin Pierce and burial with his wife’s family was Lincoln. He was asked to hide Mrs. named in his honor, are still visible Brady the Photographer returned financed by veterans of the 7th Lincoln’s expensive House in northeast DC. When the Corps of Engineers and from Bull Run (July 22, 1861) redecorating bills in his budget. The the Topographical Engineers were merged under

New York Infantry. The newer 1554 LC-B813- LOC Collection Handy Brady General Alfred Pleasonton in Warrenton, Virginia in 1863. headstone was placed in 1988. R72/S120 Statue of Freedom, placed atop the his command, he rose to Brigadier General and was Capitol dome in his tenure, has two breveted to Major General the day before he died of 11. OCTAVIUS HENDERSON (1839–1897) 3. WASHINGTON ARSENAL MONUMENT names engraved on it: French and pneumonia. R44/S36 On , 1864, sparks from a small explosion blew into Lincoln. The nearby Masonic Lodge (No. 15) on Wisconsin Son of , fifth Commandant of the the Washington Arsenal on the grounds of what is now the Avenue bears his name. R63/S228 U.S. Marine Corps, he led the 1st Virginia Regulars (the 15. FRENCH FORREST (1796–1866) Brady Handy Collection LOC LC-BH83- 3999 Navy Yard. The ensuing explosion and fire killed 22 women; Irish Battalion). When severely wounded at the Second As a Maryland native, he served in the 8. JOHN JAY ALMY (1815–1895) War of 1812 and the Mexican War. 16 are buried here (8 of the bodies were never identified), After serving in the Mexican War, he was promoted to Battle of Manassas, his Virginia Military Institute class He commanded the Washington Navy with two others in family plots nearby. The funeral Commodore at the start of the Civil War. He commanded ring was shot from his hand. The ring was found and procession, the largest at the time in the city’s history, was the USS Connecticut, which captured four notorious returned to him 32 years later. He returned to VMI to Yard from 1855–1856. In April 1861 led by Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. The blockade runners and destroyed or ran three others teach infantry tactics. R54/S245 he resigned his Navy commission statue atop the monument is by Lot Flannery, who sculpted aground. He is credited with serving the longest length of and, days later when Virginia claimed Lincoln’s statue at . R98/S145 time at sea as an officer in the Navy’s history—27 years and 12. EDWARD BAKER (1811–1861) Confederacy, joined the Virginia State

LOC LC-DIG-ppmsca-08348 4. CONFEDERATE HEADSTONES 10 months, in 42 years of service.R51/S229 A lawyer from Springfield, Illinois, Navy and the C.S. Navy. As the third highest ranking These can be distinguished from the other government-issue he was such a close friend of the officer in the Navy, he commanded the Norfolk Navy markers by their pointed rather than rounded 9. JAMES BERRET (1815–1901) President that Lincoln named his Yard and refit the USS Merrimack into the ironclad CSS profile. Legend says this choice was so that “no damn He was elected mayor of Washington second son after him. Baker was Virginia. He watched the Battle of Yankee will sit on it.” Historians believe that these wartime in 1861 by a mere 24 votes. That elected as Senator from Oregon in from a tug in the harbor in March 1862. When Norfolk year Congress passed a law requiring burials were Confederate soldiers who succumbed in nearby 1859. After the war broke out, he fell two months later, he transferred to Richmond and hospitals. R95/S211 all public officials to swear a loyalty was off the rolls of the Confederate Navy by mid–1864. oath. He refused, insisting that his organized the California Brigade and R45/S42

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