Research Catalog
- Title
- Bloody crimes : the chase for Jefferson Davis and the death pageant for Lincoln's corpse / James L. Swanson.
- Author
- Swanson, James L.
- Publication
- New York : William Morrow/HarperCollins, c2010.
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| Text | Request in advance | E477.98 .S93 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
- Description
- xiv, 464 p. : ill., maps :; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Manhunt" returns to the Civil War era to tell the epic story of the search for Jefferson Davis and the eventful funeral procession for assassinated president Abraham Lincoln.
- 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.--From publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- Chase for Jefferson Davis and the death pageant for Lincoln's corpse
- Subjects
- Picture books
- History
- Case studies
- 1861-1867
- American Civil War > (United States : > 1861-1865)
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons
- Political prisoners > United States > Case studies
- Fugitives from justice > United States > Case studies
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Death and burial
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 > Captivity, 1865-1867
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- History
- Picture books
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Flitting shadows -- In the days of our youth -- Unconquerable hearts -- Borne by loving hands -- Body of the president embalmed -- We shall see and know our friends in heaven -- Cause is not yet dead -- He is named for you -- Coffin that slowly passes -- By God, you are the men we are looking for -- Living in a tomb -- Shadow of the Confederacy.
- ISBN
- 9780061233784 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0061233781 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780061233791 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 006123379X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780061979200 (large print : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)
- 0061979201 (large print : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2010029404
- OCLC
- 456179761
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library