Edwin H. Stoughton address
- Title:
- Edwin H. Stoughton address
- Collection:
- 19th Century Prison Reform Collection
- Date:
- 1807-1868
- ID Number:
- RMM01157_B01_F18_009_01
- Collection Number:
- 1157
- File Name:
- RMM01157_B01_F18_009_01.jpg
- Work Type:
- documents
- Description:
- This note refers to "Edwin Henry Stoughton" (1838–1868) who was appointed a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, but his appointment was not confirmed and it expired. Four days later, on March 8, 1863, in a famous incident, he was captured while asleep at his headquarters at the Fairfax Court House in Virginia by Confederate partisan ranger John S. Mosby. Stoughton resigned after his exchange two months later when he was not reappointed as a brigadier general. After the war, Stoughton studied law with his father and became an attorney in the New York City practice of his uncle, Edwin W. Stoughton. He was brother of Charles Bradley Stoughton [SSID 22314621].
- Cite As:
- Enos Thompson Throop. Papers, #1157. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Enos Thompson Throop Papers
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 18
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the 19th Century Prison Reform Collection is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of its age, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2017 from print materials held in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Katherine Thorsteinson. For more information about these volumes, please contact the Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.