J. Wilkes Booth ; : an account of his sojourn in southern Maryland after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his passage across the Potomac, and his death in Virginia
(2019)
By:
Jones, Thomas A
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Red Kestrel Books, 2019
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781839740510 (electronic bk.) MWT12664650, 1839740515 (electronic bk.) 12664650
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
J. Wilkes Booth: An Account of His Sojourn..., first published in 1893, is the straight-forward account of the doomed escape of John Wilkes Booth following his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The book was written by Thomas Jones, a Confederate agent who helped Booth evade the authorities for five days by hiding the assassin near his house in Maryland. Illustrated with 18 pen and ink illustrations
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