Lincoln, Sherman, Davis and the Lost Confederate Gold

ISBN-13: 9781517212384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 296 str.

Patricia G. McNeely

Opis

The destinies of President Lincoln, General Sherman and Confederate President Davis are forever bound to the Lost Confederate Gold, but questions still linger about those astonishing events: * Why did President Andrew Johnson's administration believe General Sherman had been bribed with Confederate gold to let Jefferson Davis escape through the Carolinas and Georgia? * Who were the Confederate secret agents who had been in Canada, and why was a reward issued for their capture after Lincoln was assassinated? * How did John Wilkes Booth escape so easily across a guarded bridge after Lincoln's assassination, and why do the descendants of John Wilkes Booth want DNA samples from the 3 vertebrae taken during the autopsy of the man believed to be the killer? * Why did the Federal government launch decades of lawsuits and send treasury agents in search of gold in the Confederate states and England? * Why was neutral England asked to cede Canada and forced to pay $15.5 million to the United States after the war? Find the answers in this intriguing new book about the Confederate gold and the amazing last days of the Civil War.