Bibliograph

Bloody times, the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for Jefferson Davis, James L. Swanson

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Bloody times, the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for Jefferson Davis, James L. Swanson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190)

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bloody times

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

641531870

Responsibility statement

James L. Swanson

resource.studyProgramName

A/R 7.5 middle grades 7.0 points.Accelerated Reader AR, MG+, 7.5, 7.0, 143088.Reading Counts RC, 6-8, 3.2, 11.0, 52417.

Sub title

the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for Jefferson Davis

Summary

On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Lincoln's murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed the nation. His final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard a special train that would carry him home to Springfield, Illinois. It was the most magnificent funeral pageant in American history

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