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Author Ackerman, Ann Marie

Title Death of an Assassin : the True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee
Published Ashland : The Kent State University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Series True Crime History
True Crime History
Contents Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: The Murder Case That Broke All the Rules; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: A Nameless Hero; Part One: Murder in the Kingdom of Württemberg: 1835-36; Chapter Two: Crime Scene Bönnigheim, 1835; Chapter Three: Portents of Rebellion; Chapter Four: A Town Reacts; Chapter Five: The Detective's Hourglass; Chapter Six: Queen of the Carolina; Chapter Seven: Buckshot in the Scales of Justice; Chapter Eight: Like Cain Will You Wander; Chapter Nine: Witness!; Chapter Ten: The Birth of Forensic Ballistics; Chapter Eleven: Celestial Metronome
Chapter Twelve: A Note in the WoodsPart Two: Exile in the United States: 1835-46; Chapter Thirteen: Hunter and Prey; Chapter Fourteen: Escape to America; Chapter Fifteen: Changing Course; Chapter Sixteen: F-major Captain; Part Three: Heroism in Mexico: 1847; Chapter Seventeen: Island of the Wolves; Chapter Eighteen: River of Gold, Fortress of White; Chapter Nineteen: Amphibious Wager; Chapter Twenty: Roar of Tornadoes; Chapter Twenty-One: One Man Worth All of Mexico; Part Four: An International Solution: 1872; Chapter Twenty-Two: Post from America
Chapter Twenty-Three: New Investigation and Case ClosureEpilogue: Unpaid Debt: 2017; Appendix A: Sources Indicating Lee Wrote His Letter about Gottlob Rueb; Appendix B: Additional History of Pennsylvania's German Company in the Mexican-American War; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Notes Print version record
Subject Rieber, Johann Heinrich, -1835
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
SUBJECT Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 fast
Rieber, Johann Heinrich, -1835 fast
Subject Murder -- Germany -- Bönnigheim -- Case studies
Murderers -- Germany -- Bönnigheim -- Case studies
Alvarado, Battle of, Mexico, 1846.
Murder
Murderers
Germany -- Bönnigheim
Mexico
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781631012587
1631012584