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Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, III - The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot. The Fort Stevens Story.  - 9781442252783 - V9781442252783
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The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot. The Fort Stevens Story.

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Description for The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot. The Fort Stevens Story. Paperback. In The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story, historian B.F. Cooling documents the story of President Abraham Lincoln and the Battle of Fort Stevens in July 1864. Num Pages: 366 pages, 66 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story recounts the story of President Abraham Lincoln’s role in the Battle of Fort Stevens in July 1864. This engagement stands apart in American history as the only time a sitting American president came under enemy fire while in office. In this new study of this overlooked moment in American history, Cooling poses a troubling question: What if Lincoln had been shot and killed during this short battle, nine months prior to his death by John Wilkes Booth’s hand in Ford's Theater? A potential pivotal moment in the Civil War, the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442252783
SKU
V9781442252783
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, III
Benjamin Franklin Cooling III is a well-known Civil War historian who has authored many publications in that field, as well as in military and naval history.

Reviews for The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot. The Fort Stevens Story.
Most Civil War buffs are aware that Lincoln came under Confederate fire, and this work presents all the details they could wish to learn about the incident. It occurred in July 1864, when the president traveled to one of Washington’s forts to see the combat that erupted when a Confederate force attacked. To prepare his readers for the narrative of ... Read more

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