Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson DavisIn the tradition of the New York Times-bestselling work Manhunt, by James Swanson, comes a compelling nonfiction narrative about the pursuit and capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis at the end of the Civil War. |
Contents
Nothing Short of Dementation | 1 |
The Direful Tidings | 22 |
My Husband Will Never Cry for Quarter | 42 |
Not Abandon to the Enemy One Foot of Soil | 62 |
Let Them Up Easy | 87 |
A Miss Is as Good as a Mile | 108 |
Disastrous for Our People | 127 |
We Are Falling to Pieces | 150 |
He Hastily Put On One of Mrs Daviss Dresses | 185 |
Place Manacles and Fetters upon the Hands and Feet of Jefferson Davis | 210 |
He Is Buried Alive | 231 |
The Government Is Unable to Deal with the Subject | 258 |
Acknowledgments | 281 |
Source Notes | 285 |
Selected Bibliography | 305 |
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