Yes. He was. How? Well he and a few others, Major Henry R. And his wife went to an Ford Theatre and a famous actor, John Wilkes Booth planned and assassinated Lincoln. John burst the door of where Lincoln was sitting ( because the president got a top seat) and shot lincoln, shot the major in the arm to stop him for a moment. He then escaped by swinging off the balcony in the theatre, catching the fabric and landing on the stage, he broke his femur bone and limped as fast as he could to his horse. He then preceded to take a route over … long story short he was captured and before he died he looked at his hands and said “useless, useless”