Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial - Hardcover
by John Evangelist Walsh (Author)
On August 29, 1857, in the light of a three-quarter moon, James Metzger was savagely beaten by two assailants in a grove not far from his home. Two days later he died and his assailants, James Norris and William Armstrong, were arrested and charged with his murder. Norris was tried and convicted first. As William "Duff" Armstrong waited for his trial, his own father died. James Armstrong's deathbed wish was that Duff's mother, Hannah, engage the best lawyer possible to defend Duff. The best person Hannah could think of was a friend, a young lawyer from Springfield by the name of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln took the case and with that begins one of the oddest journeys Lincoln took on his trek towards immortality. What really happened? How much did the moon reveal? What did Lincoln really know? Walsh makes a strong case for viewing Honest Abe in a different light in this tale of murder and moonlight.
Moonlight is a 2001 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime.John Evangelist Walsh is the author of more than a dozen books of history and biography, including Midnight Dreary: The Mysterios Death of Edgar Allen Poe; Unraveling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution; and The Shadows Rise: Abraham Licoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend.
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