Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs. PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES: 1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box. 3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING:Lt. Benjamin Loring (1824-1902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no grand strategies. Loring was a sailor who just wanted to return home, where the biggest story of his life awaited him. Covering almost a year of Loring's service, I Held Lincoln describes the lieutenant's command of the gunboat USS Wave , the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, the surrender of his ship, and his capture by the Confederates. He was incarcerated in Camp Groce, a deadly Confederate prison where he endured horrific conditions and abuse. Loring attempted to escape, evading capture for ten days behind enemy lines, only to be recaptured just a few miles from freedom. After an arduous second escape, he finally reached the safety of Union lines and gained his freedom. On the night of April 14, 1865, Loring attended Ford's Theater and witnessed one of the single most tragic events in American history: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. After the shot rang out, Loring climbed into the presidential box and assisted the dying president, helping to carry him across the street to the Peterson House. Using Loring's recently discovered private journal, Richard E. Quest tells this astonishing now-recovered story, giving insight into a little-known Confederate prison camp during the last days of the Civil War and providing much-deserved recognition to a man whose journey was nearly lost to American history.
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Book Title: I Held Lincoln : a Union Sailor's JOURNEY Home
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 9.1in
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Intended Audience: Adults
Modified Item: No
Subject: History
Vintage: No
Publication Year: 2018
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1800s
Item Height: 1in
Author: Richard E. Quest
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, Transportation, War & Combat
Topic: Civil War, Combat, Military History, Navy, Political History, Ships, True Military Stories, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Lincoln, Prisoner of War, POW
Subjects: History & Military
Item Width: 6in
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
