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Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War (Revised edition)

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Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War - Leonard, Elizabeth D, PH.D.
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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth, and Secretary of State William H. Seward was brutally stabbed. Clearly a conspiracy was afoot. Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt was put in charge of the investigation and trial. He first set out to punish all of Booth's accomplices and then wanted to go after Jefferson Davis, whom he felt had instigated the assassination-despite stern opposition, not least of all from Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson. Elizabeth D. Leonard tells for the first time the ...

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Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War 2005, W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN-13: 9780393326772

Revised edition

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Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War 2004, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780393048681

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