The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Flight, Pursuit, Capture, and Punishment of the ConspiratorsThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2001 - 305 pages In this volume Oldroyd recounts the events leading up to and following the assassination, including several chapters on the trials of the conspirators. Oldroyd recounts in great detail the trip he took in May, 1901, in which he traced the route that John Wilkes Booth took during his escape and capture and interviewed several who aided the assassin in high flight. Oldroyd's account is enhanced by his references to the many sources in his collection and augmented further in the accompanying 82 illustrations. |
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Calls for medical aidRemoval from the theater of the PAGE | 29 |
CHAPTER IV | 42 |
CHAPTER V | 66 |
CHAPTER VI | 111 |
CHAPTER VIII | 129 |
CHAPTER IX | 153 |
CHAPTER X | 195 |
CHAPTER XI | 212 |
CHAPTER XII | 224 |
CHAPTER XIII | 240 |
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Page 3 - I want you to take a message from me to the miners whom you visit. I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible. It abounds all over the Western country — from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and its development has scarcely commenced. During the war, when we were adding a couple of millions of dollars every day to our National debt, I did not care about encouraging the increase in the volume of our precious metals. We had the country to...
Page 4 - During the war, when we were adding a couple of millions of dollars every day to our national debt, I did not care about encouraging the increase in the volume of our precious metals. We had the country to save first. But, now that the Rebellion is overthrown, and we know pretty nearly the amount of our national debt, the more gold and silver we mine, makes the payment of that debt so much the easier. Now," said he, speaking with much emphasis, " I am going to encourage that in every possible way.
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Lincoln's Ladies: The Women in the Life of the Sixteenth President H. Donald Winkler Limited preview - 2004 |