"On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. James L. Swanson, noted Civil War historian and author of Chasing Lincoln's Killer, captures the riveting stories of these two influential men as they made their last journeys through the bloody landscape of a wounded nation"--Publisher.
James L .Swanson (born 12 February 1959) is an American historian and author famous for his New York Times best-seller *Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer*, focusing on the biography of John Wilkes Booth and his plot to kill Lincoln and other cabinet members.
