The plot to perpetuate slavery: how George McClellan, Southern spies and a confidence man nearly derailed Emancipation
"In the aftermath of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the most significant presidential decree in American history, the Emancipation Proclamation, which would forever free all slaves in territory not under Union control. Nevertheless, his chief military co...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "In the aftermath of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the most significant presidential decree in American history, the Emancipation Proclamation, which would forever free all slaves in territory not under Union control. Nevertheless, his chief military commander in the field, Major General George B. McClellan, was outraged. Within days, two former Union officers nefariously crossed the lines into rebeldom, an initiative resulting in an elaborate subterfuge to scam Lincoln into withdrawing the Proclamation in return for nebulous promises of peace. This book tells the story, obscured in a veil of secrecy for 150 years, of the cloak and dagger chess match between Union detectives and Southern operatives in the months before emancipation become effective. Despite an ominous warning by author Herman Melville five years before, the scheme to perpetuate slavery almost succeeded, for it was engineered by a man the National Police Gazette once declared the "King of the Confidence Men"-- |
| Beschreibung: | v, 227 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts (s/w) 22,8 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781476694955 1476694958 |
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| contents | A confidence man in Manhattan -- Another grand scheme -- The aristocracy of slaveholding interests -- Monument Street girls -- On Mansfield's secret service -- A recusant chaplain -- Loudoun County scouts -- Redeeming their tarnished honor -- A brighter and more permanent prosperity -- The curiosity tour -- Strange bedfellows -- A fraudulent peace -- Mission to Maryland -- The church militant -- Attack of the Copperheads -- A shallow attempt at humbuggery |
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| spelling | Roycraft, Philip R. 1956- Verfasser (DE-588)1347240489 aut The plot to perpetuate slavery how George McClellan, Southern spies and a confidence man nearly derailed Emancipation Phil Roycraft How George McClellan, Southern spies and a confidence man nearly derailed Emancipation Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [2024] © 2024 v, 227 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts (s/w) 22,8 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A confidence man in Manhattan -- Another grand scheme -- The aristocracy of slaveholding interests -- Monument Street girls -- On Mansfield's secret service -- A recusant chaplain -- Loudoun County scouts -- Redeeming their tarnished honor -- A brighter and more permanent prosperity -- The curiosity tour -- Strange bedfellows -- A fraudulent peace -- Mission to Maryland -- The church militant -- Attack of the Copperheads -- A shallow attempt at humbuggery "In the aftermath of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the most significant presidential decree in American history, the Emancipation Proclamation, which would forever free all slaves in territory not under Union control. Nevertheless, his chief military commander in the field, Major General George B. McClellan, was outraged. Within days, two former Union officers nefariously crossed the lines into rebeldom, an initiative resulting in an elaborate subterfuge to scam Lincoln into withdrawing the Proclamation in return for nebulous promises of peace. This book tells the story, obscured in a veil of secrecy for 150 years, of the cloak and dagger chess match between Union detectives and Southern operatives in the months before emancipation become effective. Despite an ominous warning by author Herman Melville five years before, the scheme to perpetuate slavery almost succeeded, for it was engineered by a man the National Police Gazette once declared the "King of the Confidence Men"-- Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Emanzipationserklärung (DE-588)7694497-9 gnd rswk-swf McClellan, George Brinton 1826-1885 (DE-588)118865757 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1862 gnd rswk-swf Unterwanderung (DE-588)4405198-0 gnd rswk-swf United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Secret service United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Collaborationists McClellan, George B. / (George Brinton) / 1826-1885 Lincoln, Abraham / 1809-1865 United States / President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) / Emancipation Proclamation Enslaved persons / Emancipation / United States États-Unis / Histoire / 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) / Collaborateurs McClellan, George Brinton 1826-1885 (DE-588)118865757 p Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Emanzipationserklärung (DE-588)7694497-9 u Unterwanderung (DE-588)4405198-0 s Geschichte 1862 z DE-604 |
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