Name: I Held Lincoln: A Union Sailor'S Journey Home (en Inglés)
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Author: Richard E Quest
ISBN: 9781640124516

portada I Held Lincoln: A Union Sailor'S Journey Home (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Potomac Books Inc

Autor

Richard E Quest

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781640124516

Categorías

Biografías

I Held Lincoln: A Union Sailor'S Journey Home (en Inglés)

Richard E Quest (Autor) · Potomac Books Inc · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "I Held Lincoln: A Union Sailor'S Journey Home (en Inglés)"

Lt. Benjamin Loring (1824–1902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no grand strategies. Loring was a sailor who just wanted to return home, where the biggest story of his life awaited him. Covering almost a year of Loring’s service, I Held Lincoln describes the lieutenant’s command of the gunboat USS Wave, the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, the surrender of his ship, and his 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 days behind enemy lines, only to be recaptured just a few miles from freedom. After an arduous second escape, he finally reached the safety of Union lines and gained his freedom. On the night of April 14, 1865, 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, Loring climbed into the presidential box and assisted the dying president, helping to carry him across the street to the Peterson House. Using Loring’s recently discovered private journal, Richard E. Quest tells this astonishing now-recovered story, giving insight into a little-known Confederate prison camp during the last days of the Civil War and providing much-deserved recognition to a man whose journey was nearly lost to American history.