Wells in The American Civil War
During the Civil War he was lieutenant colonel of a unit from Michigan. This unit was an occupation force in the controlled part of the Union Army of Virginia. There, Wells was made head of military police in Alexandria and soon the whole of the Union-controlled territory south of the Potomac River . After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865 Wells played an important role in the pursuit and apprehension of the assassin John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia barn. As thanks for his help in the capture of Booth, Wells became a Brigadier General.
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