Kill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 Volume 51

by Bruce M. Venter

The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28-March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid's subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond ablaze. What really happened, and how and why, are debated to this day...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806151536
• ISBN13: 9780806151533
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"