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The early dragoons were organized not in squadrons or troops like the cavalry, but in companies like the foot soldier, and their officers and non-commissioned officers bore infantry ranks. Dragoon regiments employed drummers in the infantry style, rather than cavalry trumpeters, to communicate orders on the battlefield.

Following the assassination of President Lincoln

16th Vice President of the United States In office March 4, 1865 – April 15, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln Preceded by Hannibal Hamlin Succeeded by Schuyler Colfax Military Governor of Tennessee In office March 12, 1862 – March 4, 1865 Appointed by Abraham Lincoln Preceded by Isham G. Harris Succeeded by E. H. East (Acting) United States Senator from Tennessee In office October 8, 1857 – March 4, 1862 March 4, 1875 – July 31, 1875 Preceded by James C. Jones William G. Brownlow Succeeded by David T. Patterson David M. Key 17th Governor of Tennessee In office October 17, 1853 – November 3, 1857 Preceded by William B. Campbell Succeeded by Isham G. Harris Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 1st district In office March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1853 Preceded by Thomas D. Arnold Succeeded by Brookins Campbell Born December 29, 1808(1808-12-29) Raleigh, North Carolina Died July 31, 1875 (aged 66) Elizabethton, Tennessee Nationality American Political party Democratic National Union Spouse(s) Eliza McCardle Johnson Children Martha Johnson Charles Johnson Mary Johnson Robert Johnson Andrew Johnson, Jr. Occupation Tailor Religion Christian with no denominational affiliation[1][2] Signature

Captain Thomas Preston (c. 1722 – c. 1798)[1] was an officer of the 29th Regiment of Foot who was present at the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770.[2] He was acquitted of all charges in a trial held in Boston, Massachusetts. Future United States President John Adams was his attorney. Two of his men, Hugh Montgomery and Mathew Kilroy, were found guilty of manslaughter and branded on the thumb with a hot iron. After his trial, Preston retired from the army and reportedly settled in Ireland, though Adams recalled seeing him in London in the 1780s.

Thomas Preston (British Army officer)

1.1 Robert Smalls, a slave, commandeers Planter and escapes

USS Planter (1862)

Smalls and his crew are awarded half the value of Planter The United States Senate and House of Representatives passed a private bill on 30 May 1862, granting Robert Smalls and his African-American crew one half of the value of Planter and her cargo as prize money.

was a British soldier turned American

Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced /ˈtɔːni/ TAW-nee; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864, and was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office or indeed sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was also the eleventh United States Attorney General. He is most remembered for delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), that ruled, among other things, that African Americans, being considered "of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race" at the time the Constitution was drafted, could not be considered citizens of the United States.