James F. Jaquess
Subtitle: Scholar, Soldier and Private Agent for President Lincoln
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780786473588
Subjects: Confederate states of america; Soldiers; Illinois, biography; Methodist church, clergy; Methodist church, biography; United states, army, biography; Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865; United states, foreign relations
Description: "James Jaquess was a preacher, a college president and colonel of an Illinois regiment. Lincoln invited Jaquess to serve as one of his personal agents. After the Civil War, he was tried for murder, failed as a carpetbagger and convinced family and friends to invest in a bonds venture that ended in his poverty and British prison sentence"--Provided by publisher.