Henry Lawrence Burnett
Union Army General
Died when: 77 years 9 days (924 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Henry Lawrence Burnett (December 26, 1838 – January 4, 1916) was an American lawyer and, after serving as a major in the Cavalry Corps (Union Army), he was a colonel and Judge Advocate in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
He was a prosecutor in the trial that followed the Abraham Lincoln assassination.He was appointed to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers in 1866, to rank from March 13, 1865.
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