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I Held Lincoln - A Union Sailor's Journey Home (Hardcover)
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I Held Lincoln - A Union Sailor's Journey Home (Hardcover)
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List price R671
Loot Price R546
Discovery Miles 5 460
You Save R125 (19%)
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Lieutenant Benjamin Loring lived the life of an everyman Civil War
soldier. He commanded no armies; he devised no grand strategies.
Lt. Loring was a soldier who just wanted to return home, where he
awaited the biggest story of his life. In I Held Lincoln: A Union
Sailor's Journey Home, Richard E. Quest tells the story of Lt.
Loring and his noteworthy impact on American history. Covering
almost a year of Lt. Loring's service, I Held Lincoln includes the
Lieutenant's command of the gunboat Wave, the Battle of the
Calcasieu River, the surrender of the ship, and Lt. Loring's
capture by the Confederates. He was incarcerated in Camp Groce, a
deadly Confederate prison where he endured horrific conditions and
abuse. Loring attempted to escape, evading capture for ten arduous
days behind enemy lines, only to be recaptured just a few miles
from freedom. After his second escape, Lt. Loring finally gained
his freedom behind Union lines. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lt.
Loring attended Ford's Theater and witnessed one of the single most
tragic events in American history: the assassination of President
Abraham Lincoln. After the shot rang out, Lt. Loring climbed up the
presidential box where he assisted the dying president and helped
carry him across the street to the Peterson House. Using a recently
discovered private journal of Lt. Loring, Quest tells this
astonishing lost story, giving insight into a little-known
Confederate prison camp during the last days of the Civil War,
along with providing much-deserved recognition to a man whose
journey has been overlooked and lost to American history.
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