John Wilkes Booth, a prominent American actor, shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln in the state box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., at approximately 10:20 p.m. on April 14, 1865.
As dawn broke on Independence Day in 1864, Brigadier General John Fuller’s brigade of the 4th Division, 16th Army Corps of the Union Army advanced eastward from the Nickajack Creek Bridge along Concord Road.
The Whiskey Rebellion was a significant event in early American history, arising in response to a federal excise tax on distilled spirits, particularly whiskey.
