The 1862 Plot to Kidnap Jefferson Davis

by Vifquain, Jean-Baptiste Victor; Smith, Jeffrey H.; Tucker, Phillip Thomas; Vifquain, Victor; Tucker, Phillip Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780811712712
• ISBN10: 0811712710
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

Account of a secret plot to kidnap President Davis and strike a blow at the heart of the Confederacy.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii	(3)
Acknowledgments	x
Victor Vifquain: A Brief Biography	1	(18)
Chapter 1 In Washington	19	(4)
Chapter 2 On the Way to Richmond	23	(4)
Chapter 3 A Martial Concert	27	(3)
Chapter 4 Prisoners of Fitzhugh Lee	30	(6)
Chapter 5 At the Cottage by the Roadside	36	(6)
Chapter 6 In Fredericksburg; News from Pittsburg Landing	42	(8)
Chapter 7 The Field of Battle	50	(4)
Chapter 8 In Libby Prison	54	(4)
Chapter 9 On Parole in Richmond	58	(7)
Chapter 10 Plan for the Kidnapping	65	(4)
Chapter 11 Mr. Mercier in Richmond	69	(5)
Chapter 12 The Flowers	74	(3)
Chapter 13 Mr. Mercier Leaves	77	(3)
Chapter 14 The Heart Bowed Down	80	(5)
Chapter 15 A Visit to the Tug	85	(2)
Chapter 16 Aramis and Alice	87	(6)
Chapter 17 Confessions of Love	93	(5)
Chapter 18 John Walker	98	(8)
Chapter 19 The Great Naval Battle	106	(8)
Chapter 20 Last Day in Richmond	114	(5)
Chapter 21 Away from Richmond	119	(10)
Chapter 22 Fight at the Mansion	129	(8)
Chapter 23 The Death of Walker	137	(3)
Chapter 24 The Gap	140	(7)
Chapter 25 Alice Arrived	147	(4)
Chapter 26 Crossing the Shenandoah	151	(7)
Chapter 27 Under the Old Flag	158	(7)
Epilogue, from the year 1901	165	(1)
Notes	166	(9)
Bibliography	175	(4)
Index	179