John F. Hartranft
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John Frederick Hartranft was an American politician and military officer who read the death warrant to the individuals who were executed on July 7, 1865, for conspiring to assassinate American Preside
John F Hartranft
Gen. Hartranft reading the Warrant July 7, 1865
John F. Hartranft after the American Civil War
Hartranft's statue on the Pennsylvania State Capitol grounds
Battle of Fort Stedman
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The Battle of Fort Stedman, also known as the Battle of Hare's Hill, was fought on March 25, 1865, during the final weeks of the American Civil War. The Union Army fortification in the siege lines aro
John F. Hartranft
…regiments. Hartranft was brevetted major general by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant for defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee's last offensive at the Battle of Fort Stedman. He brought his untested division from its reserve position and counterattacked to recover the captured fort. In the aftermath of the assassination of…
1865 photograph at Fort Stedman by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
View of the interior of Fort Stedman
Maj. Gen. John G. Parke
Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon