Stealing Lincoln's Body by Thomas J. Craughwell

Stealing Lincoln's Body

Thomas J. Craughwell

250 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative medium-paced
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On the night of the presidential election in 1876, a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. The custodian of the tomb was so shaken by the incident that he wil...

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