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“robert k summers”

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  • Dr. Samuel A. Mudd at Fort Jefferson

    by Robert K. Summers ...
    Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and seven others were convicted of conspiracy in the 1865 Lincoln assassination trial. Four of them, David Herold, John Atzerodt, Lewis Powell, and Mary Surratt, were hanged. Dr. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlen were sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson, a U.S. Army military prison located on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.Fort Jefferson housed Civil War ... Read more

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  • The Slaves of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

    by Robert K. Summers ...
    Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was a young 32-year-old country doctor who lived with his wife and children on a tobacco farm in Charles County, Maryland, about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. He was one of eight persons convicted of conspiracy in the 1865 Lincoln assassination trial, and served almost four years of a life sentence before receiving a pardon from President Andrew Johnson in 1869.Slavery was ... Read more

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  • Maryland's Black Civil War Soldiers

    by Robert K. Summers ...
    This book profiles each of the soldiers who served in Maryland's 19th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, during the American Civil War. The profiles are based on the soldiers' military and pension files at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C.
The 19th Regiment saw action in Virginia at the battles of Weldon Railroad, Poplar Grove Church, Bermuda Hundred, Chapin's Farm, Hatcher's Run ... Read more

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  • The Assassin's Doctor

    by Robert K. Summers ...
    Saturday, April 15, 1865Dr. Samuel A. Mudd opened his front door to the loud knocking at 4 a.m., and saw John Wilkes Booth, a man he had met a couple of times before. Booth had stayed overnight at Dr. Mudd's farm house the previous fall while visiting Southern Maryland, and the two men had met a second time a month later in Washington, D.C.Booth told Dr. Mudd that he and a companion were on their ... Read more

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    by Damian Shiels ...
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  • Blood and War at My Doorstep

    by Brenda Chambers McKean ...
    "Between these pages the reader will learn that North Carolina citizens did not idly standby as their soldiers marched off to war. The women worked themselves into “patrioticexhaustion” through Aid Societies. Civilians with different means of support from thelower class to the plantation mistress wrote the governor complaining of hoarding,speculation, the tithe, bushwhackers, unionism, ... Read more

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  • The Assassination Letters

    by Jason Emerson ...
    In June 2005, two small envelopes were found in a closet in a Vermont historical site. One of the envelopes was official Treasury Department stationary and inscribed: valuable letter account of the trial after the assassination of Lincoln. Inside were three letters dated April 18, May 20, and June 15, 1865, containing eyewitness accounts of life in Washington, D.C., after the assassination of ... Read more

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  • Virginia at War, 1863

    by William C. Davis, James I. Robertson Jr. ...
    Series series Virginia at War
    The 3nd volume in this history of Confederate Virginia examines the effects of war on struggling families, the Hatfield-McCoy feud, and more.In the year 1863, only one major battle, The Battle of Chancellorsville, was fought in the Confederate State of Virginia. Yet the pressures of the Civil War turned the daily lives of Virginians—both soldiers and civilians—into battles of their own. 1863 was ... Read more

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  • Virginia at War, 1865

    by William C. Davis, James I. Robertson Jr. ...
    Series series Virginia at War
    The final volume in this comprehensive history of Confederate Virginia examines the end of the Civil War in the Old Dominion.By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication, businesses suffered, and food was scarce. Having endured major defeats on their home soil and the loss of much of the state's territory to the Union army, Virginia's Confederate ... Read more

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  • This Birth Place of Souls

    The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton

    Edited by Jane E. Schultz ...
    After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street Baptist Church, with liberal ties to abolition, established the Maine Camp Hospital Association and made the widowed Eaton its relief agent in the field. One of many Christians who believed that patriotic activism could ... Read more

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  • Washington's Spies

    The Story of America's First Spy Ring

    by Alexander Rose ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMCBased on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and ... Read more

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  • Commanders of the Civil War

    Brief Biographies of Selected Generals and Statesmen in the Conflict of the War Between the States

    by George A Scott ...
    Entering the service on either side at various ranks and from all walks of life, thousands of men commanded as officers over the course of the Civil War. Some rose meteorically to high rank, while others ended their service considerably lower than their initial commission. The select group of forty-four commanders included in this book all served at the highest ranks and have been included for ... Read more

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