The Lost Cause - Lincoln Assassination

Book 1 in the Lincoln Assassination Series One shot shattered a nation. The next fourteen days would test its soul. Good Friday, April 14, 1865: a gun cracks inside Ford's Theatre and plunges Washington into chaos. As the President fights for life, a charming actor vanishes into the night—and a frightened capital turns into a hunting ground. Telegraph lines hum. Cavalry boots thunder. Whispers of safe houses, river crossings, and secret sympathizers spread like wildfire. The Lost Cause hurls you into the manhunt that gripped America—through alleys and taverns, across marsh and midnight ferry, into farmhouses where a single knock could ruin a family forever. Every chapter tightens the net: coded notes, wrong turns, near misses, and a final, firelit standoff that will brand itself on history. But the story doesn't end with smoke in a tobacco barn. In packed courtrooms, the conspirators face the relentless machinery of military justice. Testimony clashes with rumor. Oaths are weighed against fear. And on a blistering July afternoon, the gallows rise—taking with them answers the nation still craves. Told with relentless momentum and the sharp detail of lived experience, The Lost Cause delivers the assassination, the two-week chase, the trial, the gallows—and the uneasy question beating beneath it all: how do you find truth when the witnesses are terrified, the papers are hungry, and the country itself is bleeding? If you love historical thrillers with crackling tension, moral stakes, and unforgettable atmosphere, start here. The hunt has begun. Then, the chase and capture of Jefferson Davis is told, along with his two year imprisonment by the federal government. Are you aware that it wasn't until 1977 during Jimmy Carter's term in office that Davis was posthumously forgiven for his role in the civil war and made a U. S. Citizen? The novel includes the inauguration, the assassination, the funeral, capture of John Wilkes Booth, the execution, the arrest and imprisonment of Jefferson Davis and later his funeral held in Metairie, Louisiana. Below are a few words his wife said while traveling down Poydras in downtown New Orleans. The funeral procession was over three miles long as mourners paid their respect to the South's President, Jefferson Davis. "Dear, I was thinking out loud how sad a day this has been. The United States War Department did not recognize your father. The United States flag did not fly at half-mast. It flew at half-mast throughout the south." Varina began to cry again. She raised her handkerchief up to blot the tears running down her cheek. "He is the only former Secretary of War not given the respect and honor due him by the United States Government." She sighed, clasping her slender hands together in her lap, and stared at them, lost with her emotions. "Mother, don't fret about it. Father's funeral service was, I am sure, attended by far more people than those who attended Abraham Lincoln's. The South loves him. We love the South."