Useless Civil war facts

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.

Robert Lincoln and three Presidential assassinations

Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, was present at the assassinations of three US presidents: Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. He was invited to join his parents at Ford's theater, but he declined. Robert went to his dying father’s bedside. He was still there when his father died early the next morning.

Abraham Lincoln was known to experience dreams about his own death. In 1881, President Garfield began experiencing similar dreams, and wanted to speak with Robert Lincoln about his father’s dreams. He invited Robert to join him on a trip to Elberon, N.J. Robert Lincoln arrived just as the President was shot.

Almost twenty years later, President McKinley began to experiense the same dreams so again he invited Robert Lincoln to discuss about Abraham Lincoln's dream. Again, McKinley was sot shortly after Robert's arrival.

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