Lincoln On Trial

Author : Burrus M. Carnahan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813139449

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Lincoln on Trial by Burrus M. Carnahan Pdf

The acclaimed Lincoln scholar examines the president’s treatment of Southern civilians during the Civil War, shedding new light on his wartime conduct. By twenty-first century standards, President Lincoln's adherence to the laws of war would be considered questionable. But could be condemned as a war criminal based on the accepted standards of his time? Lincoln’s critics, past and present, have not hesitated to make the charge, while his apologists defend his actions as reasonable and humane. In Lincoln on Trial, Burrus M. Carnahan examines Lincoln's leadership throughout the Civil War as he struggled to balance his own humanity against the demands of his generals. Carnahan specifically scrutinizes Lincoln's conduct toward Southerners in light of the international legal standards of his time as the president wrestled with issues such as bombardment of cities, collateral damage to civilians, seizure and destruction of property, forced relocation, and the slaughter of hostages. Carnahan investigates a wide range of historical materials from accounts of the Dahlgren raid to the voices of Southern civilians who bore the brunt of extensive wartime destruction. Through analysis of both historic and modern standards of behavior in times of war, a sobering yet sympathetic portrait of one of America's most revered presidents emerges.

Author : Dan Abrams,David Fisher
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781488095320

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Lincoln's Last Trial by Dan Abrams,David Fisher Pdf

The award-winning, New York Times–bestselling chronicle of the sensational murder trial that would be the capstone of Lincoln’s legal career. In the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old “Peachy” Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. When Harrison’s father hired Abraham Lincoln to defend him, the case took on momentous meaning. Lincoln’s debates with Senator Stephen Douglas the previous fall had transformed the little-known, self-taught lawyer into a respected politician of national prominence. As Lincoln contemplated a dark-horse run for the presidency in 1860, this case involved great risk. A loss could diminish Lincoln’s untarnished reputation. But the case also posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The victim had been his friend and his mentor. The accused killer, whom Lincoln would defend, was the son of a close friend and loyal supporter. And to win this trial he would have to form an unholy allegiance with a longtime enemy, a revivalist preacher he had twice run against for political office. Lincoln’s Last Trial vividly captures Lincoln’s dramatic courtroom confrontations as he fights for his client—but also for his own blossoming political future. It is a moment in history that shines a light on our legal system, our history, and one of our greatest presidents. A Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award

Author : John Evangelist Walsh
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250084187

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Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial by John Evangelist Walsh Pdf

On August 29, 1857, in the light of a three-quarter moon, James Metzger was savagely beaten by two assailants in a grove not far from his home. Two days later he died and his assailants, James Norris and William Armstrong, were arrested and charged with his murder. Norris was tried and convicted first. As William "Duff" Armstrong waited for his trial, his own father died. James Armstrong's deathbed wish was that Duff's mother, Hannah, engage the best lawyer possible to defend Duff. The best person Hannah could think of was a friend, a young lawyer from Springfield by the name of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln took the case and with that begins one of the oddest journeys Lincoln took on his trek towards immortality. What really happened? How much did the moon reveal? What did Lincoln really know? Walsh makes a strong case for viewing Honest Abe in a different light in this tale of murder and moonlight. Moonlight is a 2001 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime.

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 039308082X

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner Pdf

“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.

Author : James L. Swanson,Daniel Weinberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061237621

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Lincoln's Assassins by James L. Swanson,Daniel Weinberg Pdf

This definitive illustrated history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination follows the shocking events from the tragic scene at Ford's Theatre to the trial and execution of John Wilkes Booth's coconspirators. Few remember them today, but once the names Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin, and Dr. Samuel Mudd were the most reviled and notorious in America. In Lincoln's Assassins, James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg present an unprecedented visual record of almost three hundred contemporary photographs, letters, documents, prints, woodcuts, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and artifacts, many hitherto unpublished. These rare materials evoke the popular culture of the time, record the origins of the Lincoln myth, take the reader into the courtroom and the cells of the accused, document the beginning of American photojournalism, and memorialize the fates of the eight conspirators.

Author : Frederick Hatch
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476616995

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The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial and Its Legacy by Frederick Hatch Pdf

The eight people charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln were tried by a military commission under military law. The author contends that this was illegal, since the civilian legal system was fully functioning. The many ways in which the defendants’ rights were violated are described, as are the ways in which the trial testimony was either not accurate or not legally obtained. The trial is also compared with other incidents in which the U.S. military was used in police and judicial functions, with questionable results. The book is a warning against unchecked power by the executive branch of the government.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598534023

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President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Tr by Anonim Pdf

For the 150th anniversary, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented firsthand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. On April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the dramatic immediacy of Lincoln’s assassination, the hunt for the conspirators and their military trial, and the nation’s mourning for the martyred president. The fateful story is told in more than eighty original documents—eyewitness reports, medical records, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, diary entries, and poems—by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him. Courtroom testimony exposes the intricacies of the plot to kill the president; eulogies by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, and Benjamin Disraeli and poetry by Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Julia Ward Howe give eloquent voice to grief; two emotional speeches by Frederick Douglass—one of them never before published—reveal his evolving perspective on Lincoln’s legacy. Together these voices combine to reveal the full panorama of one the most shocking and tragic events in our history.

Author : Samuel Agnew Schreiner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803293259

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The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln by Samuel Agnew Schreiner Pdf

Mary Todd Lincoln (1818?82) was a politically ambitious, volatile, and sharp-tongued woman, a shopaholic, and an embarrassment to her son and to the powerful men who sought to control the Lincoln legacy for their own political supremacy. Slandered by former Lincoln cronies and Republican operatives, such as William Herndon, Ward Hill Lamon, and Thurlow Weed; disliked by her son?s wife, the former Mary Harlan; plagued by debts, her pension grant having been denied by Congress; conspired against by her son, Robert, along with Supreme Court justice David Davis, Leonard Swett, John Todd Stuart, Isaac N. Arnold, and others, she had literally no one to turn to. This account of her final years, based on documentary evidence, sets the record straight and restores the reputation of one of the most maligned women in American political history.

Author : George R. Dekle Sr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216041610

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Abraham Lincoln's Most Famous Case by George R. Dekle Sr. Pdf

Dispelling common myths and misunderstandings, this book provides a fascinating and historically accurate portrayal of the 1858 Almanac Trial that establishes both Lincoln's character and his considerable abilities as a trial lawyer. Even after the mythical elements are removed, the true story of Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial is a compelling tale of courtroom drama that involves themes of friendship and loyalty. Abraham Lincoln's Most Famous Case: The Almanac Trial sets the record straight: it examines how the dual myths of the dramatic cross-examination and the forged almanac came to be, describes how Lincoln actually won the case, and establishes how Lincoln's behavior at the trial was above reproach. The book outlines three conflicting versions of how Lincoln won the Almanac Trial—with a dramatic cross-examination; with an impassioned final argument; or with a forged almanac—and then traces the transformation of these three stories over the decades as they were retold in the forms of campaign rhetoric, biography, history, and legal analysis. After the author exposes the inaccuracies of previous attempts to tell the story of the trial, he refers to primary sources to reconstruct the probable course of the trial and address questions regarding how Lincoln achieved his victory—and whether he freed a murderer.

Author : Edward Steers
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0813191513

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Blood on the Moon by Edward Steers Pdf

Blood on the Moon examines the evidence, myths, and lies surrounding the political assassination that dramatically altered the course of American history. Was John Wilkes Booth a crazed loner acting out of revenge, or was he the key player in a wide conspiracy aimed at removing the one man who had crushed the Confederacy's dream of independence? Edward Steers Jr. crafts an intimate, engaging narrative of the events leading to Lincoln's death and the political, judicial, and cultural aftermaths of his assassination.

Author : Benn Pitman,United States Army Military Commiss
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1015582370

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The Assassination of President Lincoln: And the Trial of the Conspirators David E. Herold, Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Payne, George A. Atzerodt, Edward Sp by Benn Pitman,United States Army Military Commiss Pdf

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Author : Benn Pitman
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial, Washington, D.C., 1865
ISBN : 9781584776000

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The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators ... by Benn Pitman Pdf

Author : Thomas Mealey Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B61111

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Assassination of Lincoln by Thomas Mealey Harris Pdf

Author : T. M. Harris
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066235444

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Assassination of Lincoln by T. M. Harris Pdf

Assassination of Lincoln is a historical text by Thomas Mealey Harris. It relates to and analyzes the conspiracy issues bordering the assassination of the 16th US president Abraham Lincoln.

Author : Thomas Mealey Harris
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465582010

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Assassination of Lincoln: A History of the Great Conspiracy Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission and a Review of the Trial of John H. Surratt by Thomas Mealey Harris Pdf