Description
| Summary: | On 18 April 1861, assistant presidential secretary John Hay recorded in his diary the report of several women that ""some young Virginian long haired swaggering chivalrous of course. . . and half a dozen others including a daredevil guerrilla from Richmond named Ficklin would do a thing within forty eight hours that would ring through the world.""The women feared that the Virginian planned either to assassinate or to capture the president. Calling this a ""harrowing communication, "" Hay continued his entry: ""They went away and I went to the bedside of the Chief couché.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-369) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 0585106584
9780585106588
9780809322626
0809322625
9780809383108
0809383101
9780809320998
0809320991 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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