Manhunt : the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer / James L. Swanson.
Swanson, James L.
2006
E457.5 .S993 2006 (Mapit)
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Title Manhunt : the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer / James L. Swanson.
Author Swanson, James L.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0060518499 (alk. paper)
9780060518493 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : William Morrow, c2006.
Language English
Description 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number E457.5 .S993 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.152/4/0973/09034
Summary The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through 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. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, John Wilkes Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat. Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln's own blood relics, this book is a fully documented work, but it is also a tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal, an hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-438) and index.
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"I had this strange dream again last night"
"I have done it"
"His sacred blood"
"We have assassinated the President"
"Find the murderers"
"That vile rabble of human bloodhounds"
"Hunted like a dog"
"I have some little pride"
"Useless, useless"
"So runs the world away".

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