The great great great grandfather of Cherie Blair, the wife of the current British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was Algernon Sydney Booth. Alegernon Booth's nephew was John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin.
John Wilkes Booth's father was named after Marcus Junius Brutus, one of Julius Caesar's assassins.
One of the first three bystander physicians to reach Lincoln after the shooting was named Albert Freeman Africanus King.
The birth name of Robert E. Lee's famous gray horse "Traveller" was actually "Jeff Davis". One of U.S.Grant's horses during the war was also named "Jeff Davis". The horse was captured from Joseph Davis, Jefferson Davis's brother.
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