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Author : William A. Tidwell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : 1604736070
Author : William A. Tidwell,James O. Hall,David Winfred Gaddy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0878053484
Many Confederates believed that Abraham Lincoln himself was the sponsor of the Union army's heavy destruction of the South. With John Wilkes Booth as its agent, the Confederate Secret Service devised a plan of retribution--to seize President Lincoln, hold him hostage, and bring the war-weary North to capitulation. The code word for this stratagem was "Come Retribution." But when Booth was stymied, the Secret Service took another course. They conspired to bomb the White House during a conference of senior Union officials. But this plot also failed. Next, the Confederates devised for Confederate forces to abandon Richmond and Petersburg and to link up with General Joseph E. Johnston in the South before General Grant's forces were prepared to move. This plan was thwarted, however, when Grant took Richmond. By April 9, 1865, Lee was forced to surrender. Yet the willful, ardent Booth, smarting from the South's loss of the war, took decisive action at Ford's Theater during that spring night in 1865. Investigating the assassination from their perspective as career intelligence officers, William A. Tidwell and David Winfred Gaddy, joined by James O. Hall, one of the leading authorities on the assassination, find and follow the clues, interpret the clandestine evidence, and draw well-founded conclusions. They are the first to explore the Confederate Secret Service's link to the death of Lincoln. In Come Retribution, originally published in 1988 and now available again in a paperback edition, they offer startling insights and give a new direction to the well-known and often-told story of Lincoln and Booth. "The facts presented and the inferences drawn are provocative," said Nathan Miller in The Baltimore Sun. "Every account of the Lincoln assassination published in the future will have to take account of the arguments presented in this book."
Author : William A. Tidwell,David Winfred Gaddy,James O. Hall,Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : 0760703817
Author : William A. Tidwell,James O. Hall,David W. Gaddy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 078815463X
An astonishing book that reveals the Confederacyas role in the death of Lincoln
Author : Julian Sher
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781039000308
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 J. W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE A riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the unexpected ways Canadians were involved in every aspect of the American Civil War. Canadians take pride in being on the “good side” of the American Civil War, serving as a haven for 30,000 escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. But dwelling in history's shadow is the much darker role Canada played in supporting the slave South and in fomenting the many plots against Lincoln. The North Star weaves together the different strands of several Canadians and a handful of Confederate agents in Canada as they all made their separate, fateful journeys into history. The book shines a spotlight on the stories of such intrepid figures as Anderson Abbott, Canada’s first Black doctor, who joined the Union Army; Emma Edmonds, the New Brunswick woman who disguised herself as a man to enlist as a Union nurse; and Edward P. Doherty, the Quebec man who led the hunt to track down Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. At the same time, the Canadian political and business elite were aiding the slave states. Toronto aristocrat George Taylor Denison III bankrolled Confederate operations and opened his mansion to their agents. The Catholic Church helped one of Booth’s accused accomplices hide out for months in the Quebec countryside. A leading financier in Montreal let Confederates launder money through his bank. Sher creates vivid portraits of places we thought we knew. Montreal was a sort of nineteenth-century Casablanca of the North: a hub for assassins, money-men, mercenaries and soldiers on the run. Toronto was a headquarters for Confederate plotters and gun-runners. The two largest hotels in the country became nests of Confederate spies. Meticulously researched and richly illustrated, The North Star is a sweeping tale that makes long-ago events leap off the page with a relevance to the present day.
Author : John Bell
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554889884
In 1863–1864, Confederate naval operations were launched from Canada against America, with an unexpected impact on North America’s future. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a myth has persisted that the hijackers entered the United States from Canada. This is completely untrue. Nevertheless, there was a time during the U.S. Civil War when attacks on America were launched from Canada, but the aggressors were mostly fellow Americans engaged in a secessionist struggle. Among the attacks were three daring naval commando expeditions against a prisoner-of-war camp on Johnsons Island in Lake Erie. These Confederate operations on the Great Lakes remain largely unknown. However, some of the people involved did make more indelible marks in history, including a future Canadian prime minister, a renowned Victorian war correspondent, a beloved Catholic poet, a notorious presidential assassin, and a son of the abolitionist John Brown. The improbable events linking these figures constitute a story worth telling and remembering. Rebels on the Great Lakes offers the first full account of the Confederate naval operations launched from Canada in 186364, describing forgotten military actions that ultimately had an unexpected impact on North Americas future.
Author : Lewis Strange Wingfield (Hon.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600060684
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89096126644
Author : Edward Gibbon Swann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : HARVARD:HNP5ZB
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32435058126418
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555016239
Author : Franklin P. Jepson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047842310
Author : David Dixon Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3325443
Author : Lavinia J. LAWRENCE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018662428
Author : George Dana Boardman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Bible
ISBN : YALE:39002085401561