Shipwreck on the Potomac: Disaster in Pursuit of Lincoln's Killer - Paperback
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Shipwreck on the Potomac: Disaster in Pursuit of Lincoln's Killer
They Didn't Need to be There
It was a calm, moonless night in late April 1865. Robert E. Lee had surrendered. Abraham Lincoln was dead. Assassin John Wilkes Booth and accomplice David Herold, previously hiding in the swamps of Southern Maryland, had crossed the Potomac River to safety. The barge Black Diamond was anchored with the Potomac Flotilla near Blackistone Lighthouse, hoping to prevent...
Karen Stone has been the museum division manager for St. Mary's County, Maryland, since 2017. She did her undergraduate work at Gettysburg College and obtained her master's degree from Penn State University; she has been working in the museum field ever since. She has been a Lincoln fan and student of his assassination since childhood, so she was fascinated when she first heard this story with...
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