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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 boarded a train from Richmond and 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. Lincoln's murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed the nation. His final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard a special train that would carry him home on the 1,600-mile trip to Springfield. Along the way, more than a million Americans looked upon their martyr's face, and several million watched the funeral train roll by. It was the largest and most magnificent funeral pageant in American history. To the Union, Davis was no longer merely a traitor. He became a murderer, a wanted man with a $100,000 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. - Jacket flap.
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Death and burial, Prisoners and prisons, Case studies, Fugitives from justice, Captivity, 1865-1867, Political prisoners, History, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2010-10-24, New York Times bestseller, Davis, jefferson, 1808-1889, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, Political prisoners, united states, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, prisoners and prisonsShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Bloody Crimes: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis
2010, HarperCollins Publishers
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0061989851 9780061989858
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Bloody Crimes: the chase for Jefferson Davis and the death pageant for Lincoln's corpse
September 2010, William Morrow
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0061233781 9780061233784
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