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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard; Henry Holt Killing Lincoln assembled examination of how one man’s anger led him is an artfully to murder. But while the authors demonstrate that Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was an amateurish mess lacking impulse control, their book’s factual errors diminish …
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The Weakest LinkIn the winter of 1861, Allan Pinkerton’s best agent—Timothy Webster—provided the famous detective with information that helped thwart a plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham … Read MoreLegends: A battle of “firsts” at Fort HatterasThe Hatteras Inlet, running between Ocracoke and Hatteras islands on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, has always provided oceangoing vessels with rare deep-water access to the state’s… Read MoreA Different Kind of Naval WarfareIn early March 1862, crews in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Portsmouth, Va., rushed to complete two vessels radically different designs. In Brooklyn, the Union ironclad Monitor completed sea… Read MoreHow Washington Got its Police ForceThey called it “the great skedaddle.” Union troops who had taken to the field brimming with confidence staggered back to the nation’s capital in shocked defeat after the First Batt… Read MoreAmerica’s Civil War Letters from Readers March 2012Against all odds I read with dismay “The Fightin’ Irish,” by Thomas Craughwell (November 2011). While the Irish brigades lost almost half their number in the “Battle” of Fredericks… Read More
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