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The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
HarperTeen
January 2011
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Featuring: Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis
121 pages
ISBN: 0061560898
EAN: 9780061560897
Hardcover
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Young Adult | Historical | Non-Fiction
New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt James L.
Swanson creates an adaptation for young people of his adult
book Bloody Crimes, a suspense-filled thriller that sheds
light on two fallen leaders of the North and South. One man, President Lincoln, assassinated, on his way to the
grave. Another man, the president of the Confederacy,
Jefferson Davis, on the run, soon to be sent to prison.
Their actions forever changed the history of a nation. On
the morning of April 2, 1865, 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. Along the way, more than a million Americans
looked upon their martyr’s face, and several million watched
the funeral train roll by. It was the most magnificent
funeral pageant in American history. James L. Swanson captures the riveting stories of these two
influential men as they made their last journeys through the
bloody landscape of a wounded nation.
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