Smoke from the incipient fires they set is quickly discovered and the fires put out. In the dramatic search for the conspirators that follows, only one of them is caught, Robert Cobb Kennedy, a captain from Louisiana. He is tried, convicted and hanged... the last rebel executed by the North before the end of the war.
The Man Who Tried to Burn New York won the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award in 1987.
Smoke from the incipient fires they set is quickly discovered and the fires put out. In the dramatic search for the conspirators that follows, only one of them is caught, Robert Cobb Kennedy, a captain from Louisiana. He is tried, convicted and hanged... the last rebel executed by the North before the end of the war.
The Man Who Tried to Burn New York won the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award in 1987.
The Man Who Tried to Burn New York
312The Man Who Tried to Burn New York
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ISBN-13: | 9781475915846 |
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Publisher: | iUniverse, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 08/04/1999 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 312 |
Sales rank: | 723,827 |
File size: | 7 MB |