Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail

by Candice Shy Hooper

2024 IPPY Silver Medal Winner in Biography
2024 IPPY Silver Medal Winner in U.S. History

During the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly as closely as those of generals, though he was not in the military. After the war, his swift response to Ku Klux Klan violence sparked passage of a landmark civil rights law, though he was not a politician. When he died in 1888 newspapers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640124489
• ISBN13: 9781640124486
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 9.0"