Manhunt
Subtitle: The 12-Day Chase for Abraham Lincoln's Killer
By: James L. Swanson
Publisher: Portrait
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780749951344
Subjects: Assassination; Investigation; Presidents; Fugitives from justice; History
Description: The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, John Wilkes Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat. Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln's own blood relics, this book is a fully documented work, but it is also a tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal, an hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters.
Notes: Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references ([397]-414) and index.