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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 45 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Richard Thomas. |
| Summary |
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 fled the capital, setting off an intense and thrilling chase in which 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 that led to the crime. To the Union, Davis was no longer merely a traitor. He became a murderer, a wanted man with a one-hundred-thousand-dollar bounty on his head. 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. Meanwhile, Lincoln's final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard a special train that would carry the fallen president through the largest and most magnificent funeral pageant in American history. The saga that began with Manhunt continues with the suspenseful and electrifying Bloody Crimes. James Swanson masterfully weaves together the stories of two fallen leaders as they made their last expeditions through the bloody landscape of a wounded nation. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Captivity, 1865-1867.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Death and burial.
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Political prisoners -- United States -- Case studies.
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Fugitives from justice -- United States -- Case studies.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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| Added Author |
Thomas, Richard, 1951- Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780061988608 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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006198860X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11586954 |
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