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"This story is true. All the characters are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. Their words are authentic and come from original sources: letters, manuscripts, trial transcripts, newspapers, government reports, pamphlets, books and other documents. What happened in Washington, D.C., that spring, and in the swamps and rivers, forests and fields of Maryland and Virginia during the next twelve days, is far too incredible to have...
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As thoroughly examined as the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth have been, virtually no attention has been paid to the life of the Union cavalryman who killed Booth, an odd character named Boston Corbett. The killing of Booth made Corbett an instant celebrity whose peculiarities made him the object of fascination and derision. Corbett was an English immigrant, a hatter by trade, who was likely poisoned by the
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Center of Military History, United States Army
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2020.
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English
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"The Lincoln Assassination Staff Ride offers significant political, strategic, legal, and military lessons. Revisiting the historic sites associated with the assassination's planning, execution, and aftermath--including the site of the conspirators' trial by military commission, viewed through the eyes of the actual participants--affords students insights into decision making under immense pressure and the human condition during times of crisis"--...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most...
10) Booth
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[2022]
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"From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean...
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The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, John Wilkes...
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Actual times volume 5
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Roaring Brook Press
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2014.
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English
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Explores the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt that followed.
14) Killing Lincoln
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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2013.
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English
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Recounts the story of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, describing the events surrounding the murder and the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.
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Graphic library volume Graphic history
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Capstone Press
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[2005]
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English
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Presents a comic book version of the story of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the escape and capture of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.
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A&E Television Networks
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2008.
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English
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From the fateful balcony in Ford's Theatre to Dr. Samuel Mudd's remote home to the fiery showdown in a Virginia farmhouse, experience firsthand the suspenseful, breakneck search for America's first presidential assassin. Discover the awesome reach of his conspiracy, which had further targeted Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward in a bid to undermine the U.S. Government and give the Confederacy a second chance. No man...
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Clarion Books
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[2005]
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English
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Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth and his actor brother John Wilkes Booth, describing the differences between the two men, chronicling John's assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and examining the impact of John's crime on the Booth family for decades afterward.
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Books Fluent
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[2021]
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English
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"When those harrowing words ring out during a children's entertainment in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young chemist from England named Johnnie Holmes grabs Tad Lincoln, the 12-year-old son of the dying President, races the boy to safety and soon finds himself enlisted in the most infamous manhunt in history. One Must Tell the Bees is the untold story of young Holmes's journey from the streets of London to the White...
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