Manhunt
Book description
An enthralling hour-by-hour account of the twelve days in 1865 between President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the capture and death of his murderer, John Wilkes Booth. From 14th to 26th of April 1865, the hunt for Booth and his accomplices transfixed, thrilled and horrified a nation of mourners as Booth…
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1 author picked Manhunt as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Get your mind around this: John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln in the presidential box at Ford’s Theater, then leapt onstage in front of 1,500 people who had heard the shot, had seen the smoke billow out from Lincoln’s box, had heard Clara Harris scream “He has shot the President!” then ran out the back of the theater, jumped on a one-eyed horse and vanished…for 12 days.
How Booth could have disappeared so completely after such a public act says a lot about relations between North and South as the Civil War was winding down (he was…
From Jeff's list on the Civil War without all the battlefield stuff.
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