04449cam a2200685 4500 2470598583 TxAuBib 20250807120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593475621 0593475623 B0DK4JRM9Y Amazon 230146ed-2821-440a-a22b-d94cc61ea630 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11272518 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ellsworth, Scott. Midnight on the Potomac [Libby eBook] : The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America. Penguin Publishing Group, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. american civil war books. civil war history books. American history books. United States History. Lincoln assassination. history teacher gifts. American Civil War. John Wilkes Booth. Civil War history. american history. historical books. Abraham Lincoln. civil war books. ulysses s grant. reconstruction. civil war book. history books. books for dad. history gifts. Robert E Lee. Confederacy. Abe Lincoln. us history. Gettysburg. Civil War. dad books. dad gifts. American. lincoln. Slavery. History. potomac. HTML:<b>From the author of <i>The Ground Breaking,</i> longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War—and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln</b><br /> Told with a page-turning pace, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author and historian Scott Ellsworth has written the most compelling new book about the Civil War in years. Focusing on the last, desperate months of the war, when the outcome was far from certain, <i>Midnight on the Potomac</i> is a story of titanic battles, political upheaval, and the long-forgotten Confederate terror war against the loyal citizens of the North. Taking us behind the scenes in the White House, along the battlefronts in Virginia, and into the conspiracies of spies and secret agents, Lincoln walks these pages, as do Grant and Sherman. But so do common soldiers, runaway slaves, and an unknown but intrepid female war correspondent named Lois Adams. Rarely, if ever, has a book about the Civil War featured such a rich and diverse cast of characters.<br /> <i>Midnight on the Potomac</i> will also shatter some long-held myths. For more than a century and a half, the Lincoln assassination has been portrayed as the sole brainchild of a disgruntled, pro-South actor. But based on both obscure contemporary accounts and decades of long-ignored scholarship, Ellsworth reveals that for nearly one year before the tragic events at Ford’s Theatre, John Wilkes Booth had been working closely with agents of the Confederate Secret Service. And the real Booth is far from the one we’ve long been presented with.<br /> Deeply researched yet captivatingly written, <i>Midnight on the Potomac</i> is a new kind of book about the Civil War. In it you will read about the Confederate attempt to burn down New York City, how Lincoln almost lost the presidency, about the Rebel general who nearly captured Washington, and how thousands of enslaved African Americans freed themselves—and helped secure their nation’s survival. In an age of deep political division such as our own, Scott Ellsworth’s book is an eloquent and gripping testament to the courage, grit, and greatness of the American people. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-08-06 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=230146ed-2821-440a-a22b-d94cc61ea630&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=230146ed-2821-440a-a22b-d94cc61ea630&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)