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Author McIlwain, Christopher Lyle, author.

Title The million-dollar man who helped kill a president : George Washington Gayle and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln / by Christopher Lyle McIlwain, Sr
Published El Dorado Hills, CA : Savas Beatie, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages)
Contents A faithful disciple of the old pannel Jackson Democracy -- Leave this accursed Union -- The slaveholder -- Great God what a country -- Lincoln will have his assassin -- Cruel tyrants cannot live in a land of liberty -- Deeds of avenging war -- A shrewd, cold-blooded rascal -- A wicked pardon -- A mean man is dead
Summary George Washington Gayle is not a name known to history. But it soon will be. Forget what you thought you knew about why Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. No, it was not mere sectional hatred, Booth's desire to become famous, Lincoln's advocacy of black suffrage, or a plot masterminded by Jefferson Davis to win the war by crippling the Federal government. Christopher Lyle McIlwain, Sr.'s Untried and Unpunished: George Washington Gayle and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln exposes the fallacies regarding each of those theories and reveals both the mastermind behind the plot, and its true motivation. The deadly scheme to kill Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward was Gayle's brainchild. The assassins were motivated by money Gayle raised. Lots of money. $20,000,000 in today's value. Gayle, a prominent South Carolina-born Alabama lawyer, had been a Unionist and Jacksonian Democrat before walking the road of radicalization following the admission of California as a free state in 1850. Thereafter, he became Alabama's most earnest secessionist, though he would never hold any position within the Confederate government or serve in its military. After the slaying of the president Gayle was arrested and taken to Washington, DC in chains to be tried by a military tribunal for conspiracy in connection with the horrendous crimes. The Northern press was satisfied Gayle was behind the deed--especially when it was discovered he had placed an advertisement in a newspaper the previous December soliciting donations to pay the assassins. There is little doubt that if Gayle had been tried, he would have been convicted and executed. However, he not only avoided trial, but ultimately escaped punishment of any kind for reasons that will surprise readers. Rather than rehashing what scores of books have already alleged, Untried and Unpunished offers a completely fresh premise, meticulous analysis, and stunning conclusions based upon years of firsthand research by an experienced attorney. This original, thought-provoking study will forever change the way you think of Lincoln's assassination
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Subject Gayle, George Washington, 1807-1875.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination.
SUBJECT Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 fast
Subject Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial, Washington, D.C., 1865.
Advertising, Newspaper -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Miscellanea
Lawyers -- Alabama -- Biography
Legislators -- Alabama -- Biography
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Advertising, Newspaper
Assassination
Lawyers
Legislators
Politics and government
SUBJECT Alabama -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Dallas County (Ala.) -- Biography
Subject Alabama
Alabama -- Dallas County
Southern States
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Trivia and miscellanea
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611213959
1611213959
Other Titles Untried and Unpunished
George Washington Gayle and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln