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Author : Alfred Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Book collecting
ISBN : UIUC:30112003250658
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033932081
Author : Marsha Dixey
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599675099
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599674688
Author : Chris Ivy
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599674416
Author : Warren Tucker
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599674432
Author : Corey Recko
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476606309
Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkerton's agency, Webster excelled. His cases included tracking a world famous forger, investigating grave robberies in a Chicago cemetery, and seeking to uncover a plot to destroy the Rock Island Bridge. It was also as a Pinkerton detective that Webster made his greatest contribution to his country when he was part of a small group of operatives that uncovered a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Webster went on to serve the United States as a spy in the Civil War. He traveled to the Confederate Capital multiple times and made many connections high up in the Confederate military and government. For a time he was the Union's top spy, but his career came to an abrupt end when, in 1862, he was betrayed by fellow spies and became the first spy executed in the Civil War.
Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090079211
Author : George R. Dekle Sr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440830501
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 : Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198023043
Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle, as his widow, son, memorial builders, and memorabilia collectors fought over his visible legacy. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the end of slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation; at more than one memorial event for the great emancipator, the author notes, blacks were excluded. He makes an engaging examination of the flood of reminiscences and biographies, from Lincoln's old law partner William H. Herndon to Carl Sandburg and beyond. Serious historians were late in coming to the topic; for decades the myth-makers sought to shape the image of the hero President to suit their own agendas. He was made a voice of prohibition, a saloon-keeper, an infidel, a devout Christian, the first Bull Moose Progressive, a military blunderer and (after the First World War) a military genius, a white supremacist (according to D.W. Griffith and other Southern admirers), and a touchstone for the civil rights movement. Through it all, Peterson traces five principal images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the great emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people.
Author : Mark Van Winkle
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1599673150
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599674629
Author : Evert Jansen Wendell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019325687
Author : Evert Jansen Wendell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433057513800
Author : Evert Jansen Wendell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : America
ISBN : MINN:31951002031858B
