Sergeant Robinson, Mount (Alaska)

found: Work cat.: NUCMC data from Maine Historical Society for Corliss, C.J. Alaska names mountain peak for Civil War hero, undated(mountain peak named for Sgt. George Foster Robinson, of 8th Maine Volunteers)

found: GNIS Mar. 29, 2007(Mount Sergeant Robinson; summit; named in 1965 by Sen. E.L. Bartlett for Sgt. George F. Robinson (d. 1907) who on Apr. 14, 1865 thwarted the assassination attempt on Secretary of State William H. Seward, being himself severely wounded in action. The assassination attempt took place same evening that Pres. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated; in Chugach Mountains, 10.4 mi SSW of Mt. Wickersham, 10 mi. NW of Mt. Marcus Baker, 41 mi. E of Palmer, and 73 mi ENE of Anchorage; variant: Mount Robinson Sergeant; Matanuska-Susitna County; map: Anchorage C-3: lat.: 61⁰34ʹ35ʺN; long.: 147⁰50ʹ55ʺW)