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President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Tr

2015-02-24 History
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Download or read book President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Tr written by . This book was released on 2015-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 150th anniversary, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented firsthand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. On April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the dramatic immediacy of Lincoln’s assassination, the hunt for the conspirators and their military trial, and the nation’s mourning for the martyred president. The fateful story is told in more than eighty original documents—eyewitness reports, medical records, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, diary entries, and poems—by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him. Courtroom testimony exposes the intricacies of the plot to kill the president; eulogies by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, and Benjamin Disraeli and poetry by Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Julia Ward Howe give eloquent voice to grief; two emotional speeches by Frederick Douglass—one of them never before published—reveal his evolving perspective on Lincoln’s legacy. Together these voices combine to reveal the full panorama of one the most shocking and tragic events in our history.

Manhunt

2009-10-13 History
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Release : 2009-10-13
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Book Synopsis Manhunt by : James L. Swanson

Download or read book Manhunt written by James L. Swanson. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an Apple TV+ Series “A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history--the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry troops on a wild, 12-day chase from the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror and sadness. Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln’s own blood relics Manhunt is a fully documented, fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, it is history as it’s never been read before.

The Lincoln Assassination

2014-12-03 History
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Release : 2014-12-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Lincoln Assassination by : Harold Holzer

Download or read book The Lincoln Assassination written by Harold Holzer. This book was released on 2014-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse perspectives on Lincoln’s assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today’s leading Lincoln scholars. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. Now leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their most salient studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary—and complicated—public reaction, and the iconography that Lincoln’s murder and deification inspired. Contributors also offer the latest accounts of the pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious sermons, to spontaneous outbursts on the nation’s city streets, to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals, as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the conspirators, is examined in the light of fresh evidence and insightful analysis. Contributing to this volume are some of the finest scholars specializing in Lincoln’s assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their originality, and their writing. In addition to the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current.

The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators ...

2006 Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial, Washington, D.C., 1865
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Release : 2006
Genre : Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial, Washington, D.C., 1865
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Book Synopsis The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators ... by : Benn Pitman

Download or read book The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators ... written by Benn Pitman. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Assassination of Lincoln

1994-01-01 History
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Release : 1994-01-01
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Book Synopsis The Assassination of Lincoln by : Lloyd Lewis

Download or read book The Assassination of Lincoln written by Lloyd Lewis. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War officially ended at Appomattox soon after President Lincoln?s second inauguration. During his first term he had been widely viewed by special-interest groups as a good-natured, indecisive bungler, and worse. In the South he was still despised, and many in the North, especially the radicals in the Republican party, distrusted and derided his leniency toward the vanquished. On the evening of April 14, 1865, an assassin?s bullet irrevocably altered the way Abraham Lincoln would be viewed by Americans. In life a cunning politician, Lincoln became in death a selfless martyr. Lloyd Lewis explicates the mythology that evolved out of Lincoln?s death, the outpouring of national grief, the pursuit of John Wilkes booth and the conspirators, booth?s fate, and the frequent moving and reburial of Lincoln?s coffin.

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