Robert Cobb Kennedy
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Robert Cobb Kennedy was a Confederate operative who was hanged for his role in a failed plot to burn New York City during the American Civil War.
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General Edwin Stoughton, Kennedy's classmate and later his defense lawyer
Barnum's American Museum, where Kennedy attempted to start a blaze
Fort Lafayette, site of Kennedy's execution
Edwin H. Stoughton
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Edwin Henry Stoughton was appointed a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, but his appointment expired after it was not confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Four days later, on
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…of the wealthier families of the region. At the age of 18, Kennedy left home to attend West Point. He entered in the same class as Joseph Wheeler and Edwin H. Stoughton, who would both later serve as generals on opposing sides of the Civil War, but Kennedy proved a poor student. He accumulated numerous demerits and a…
Gen. Edwin Henry Stoughton
Stoughton as depicted in 1911's Prison Life in the Old Capitol and Reminiscences of the Civil War.
Fairfax County Courthouse