Was Booth a lone assassin? Or was he part of a wider conspiracy? A plot hatched by his own generals to replace Lincoln with General Ulysses S. He slumped to the floor, and died a few hours later without regaining consciousness. A single shot fired by John Wilkes Booth hit the President in the back of the head.
On the night of April 14th 1865 President Abraham Lincoln attended a performance at The Ford Theatre, in Washington. This edition was published by Phoenix, Essex, UK, in August 2013 Ī CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This book has been sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.īritish Library Cataloguing In Publication Data. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, scanning, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a newspaper, magazine or journal. John Holt has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998 to be identified as the author of this work.Īll rights reserved. There are no known restrictions on publication.
It is registered with the Library of Congress - Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-04031 (digital file from original print. It was published on December 19th 1887 by L Prang & Co., Boston. The white German Baptist Church is visible in the background in this 1887 painting called "Battle of Antietam" by Thure de Thulstrup. The image shows the Union advance on Dunker Church at Antietam, blocking the Army of Northern Virginia’s advance into Maryland. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded and missing on both sides combined.
The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, was fought on Wednesday, September 17th 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign. The cover image shows the Battle of Antietam: the first major battle of the American Civil War to be fought on Northern soil.
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