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"Dark Union reveals for the first time how the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln was woven through an even more complex scheme to pay for and profit from the Union war effort by trading in Confederate cotton - a scheme approved by Lincoln himself." "Based largely on previously unseen, long-lost archival material - which scholars will have access to on publication of this book at Indiana State University's Cunningham Memorial Library - Dark Union reveals how, in order to head off national bankruptcy and finance the Union war effort, Lincoln sanctioned semi-clandestine trade deals between Northern investors and owners of Southern cotton. But in early 1865, Lincoln began to vacillate in regards to trading with the enemy, which - along with the imminent end of the hostilities - threatened the huge profits at stake. Simultaneously, the extremists of Lincoln's party were enraged by his forgiving attitude towards the South - and they plotted to remove him from office. These elements merged into an unholy alliance, with holdouts from the crumbling Confederacy scheming to kidnap Lincoln ... and an unstable actor named John Wilkes Booth with connections on every side taking matters into hi

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Author

Leonard F. Guttridge, Ray A. Neff

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780471264811

Category

history

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14