The day Lincoln was almost shot : the Fort Stevens story /

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Author / Creator:	Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, III, 1938-
Imprint:	Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, [2013]
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 322 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates)
Language:	English
Subject:	Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865. Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865. Maryland Campaign, 1864. Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- 19th century. Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. Washington (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) -- Fort Stevens. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12659353

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ISBN:	9780810886230 0810886235 9780810886223 0810886227
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	In The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story, historian B.F. Cooling documents the story of President Abraham Lincoln and the Battle of Fort Stevens in July 1864. Standing apart in American history as the only time a sitting American president came under enemy fire while in office, it poses a troubling question: What if then-president Lincoln had been shot nine months prior to his assassination in Ford's Theater? The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot answers t.
Other form:	Print version: Day Lincoln was almost shot. Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., [2013] 9780810886223

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