Bloody crimes : the chase for Jefferson Davis and the death pageant for Lincoln's corpse / James L. Swanson.
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis boarded a train from Richmond and fled the capital, setting off an intense chase as Union cavalry hunted the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy. To the Union, Davis was no longer merely a traitor, but a murderer. Lincoln's murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed the nation. Millions watched the funeral train roll by on its way to Illinois, in the largest and most magnificent funeral pageant in American history. Meanwhile, Davis was hunted down and placed in captivity, the beginning of an intense and dramatic odyssey that would transform him into a martyr of the South's Lost Cause.
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- ISBN: 0061233781
- ISBN: 006123379X
- ISBN: 0061979201
- ISBN: 9780061233784
- ISBN: 9780061233791
- Physical Description: xiv, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : William Morrow/HarperCollins, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 "Flitting Shadows" 3 -- 2 "In the Days of Our Youth" 42 -- 3 "Unconquerable Hearts" 66 -- 4 "Borne by Loving Hands" 98 -- 5 "The Body of the President Embalmed!" 131 -- 6 "We Shall See and Know Our Friends in Heaven" 160 -- 7 "The Cause Is Not Yet Dead" 194 -- 8 "He Is Named for You" 232 -- 9 "Coffin That Slowly Passes" 268 -- 10 "By God, You Are the Men We Are Looking For" 304 -- 11 "Living in a Tomb" 333 -- 12 "The Shadow of the Confederacy" 359.
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On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis boarded a train from Richmond and fled the capital, setting off an intense chase as Union cavalry hunted the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy. To the Union, Davis was no longer merely a traitor, but a murderer. Lincoln's murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed the nation. Millions watched the funeral train roll by on its way to Illinois, in the largest and most magnificent funeral pageant in American history. Meanwhile, Davis was hunted down and placed in captivity, the beginning of an intense and dramatic odyssey that would transform him into a martyr of the South's Lost Cause.
