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07-04-2014, 04:24 PM
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RE: Paige Booth's post #1 above in this thread 06/27/14 on the Scorpion's Sting by James Oakes.

I would recommend that one first read his Freedom National referred to by Rob Wick in post#1 under the thread New Books, 12/02/12. It gives one the background to better understand Oakes' Scorpion's Sting, a series of more intricate historical essays delivered as part of the Walter L Fleming Lectures, a more or less annual event sponsored by the History Department at Louisiana State University. Otherwise she is correct--it is fascinating and essential to understanding where the N and S stood at the eve of secession and during the war on the issue of emancipation.

Also, I have another of my historical novels that Laurie despises coming out this Fall called The Assassinator: The Trial and Hanging of John Wilkes Booth, a sort of what if look at an alternative history, complete with footnotes and real history, that assumes that Booth did not die at Garrett's Farm but lived to face a military commission as did his co-conspirators, and explaining Booth's attempt to defend his actions at Ford's Theater, April 14, 1865, when denied that opportunity by rules of the court.
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Something New - PaigeBooth - 06-27-2014, 09:10 PM
RE: Something New - RJNorton - 06-28-2014, 05:14 AM
RE: Something New - L Verge - 06-28-2014, 01:18 PM
RE: Something New - Eva Elisabeth - 06-28-2014, 08:53 PM
RE: Something New - PaigeBooth - 06-29-2014, 10:02 PM
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RE: Something New - Linda Anderson - 07-04-2014, 04:37 PM
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RE: Something New - Eva Elisabeth - 07-21-2014, 09:55 PM
RE: Something New - RJNorton - 07-22-2014, 08:04 AM
RE: Something New - Eva Elisabeth - 03-29-2015, 06:35 PM
RE: Something New - LincolnToddFan - 07-22-2014, 01:19 AM
RE: Something New - L Verge - 07-24-2014, 08:26 PM
RE: Something New - LincolnToddFan - 07-24-2014, 09:55 PM
RE: Something New - Eva Elisabeth - 07-25-2014, 05:53 AM
RE: Something New - RJNorton - 07-25-2014, 05:58 AM
RE: Something New - LincolnToddFan - 07-25-2014, 12:06 PM
RE: Something New - Eva Elisabeth - 07-25-2014, 06:12 PM
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RE: Something New - BettyO - 07-26-2014, 02:50 PM
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RE: Something New - Susan Higginbotham - 07-27-2014, 02:26 PM
RE: Something New - Eva Elisabeth - 07-27-2014, 08:47 AM
RE: Something New - RJNorton - 07-27-2014, 02:40 PM
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RE: Something New - PaigeBooth - 07-28-2014, 10:41 AM
RE: Something New - LincolnToddFan - 07-29-2014, 03:36 AM
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RE: Something New - RJNorton - 08-04-2014, 10:50 AM
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