Killing Lincoln Book Review

In Bill O’Reilly’s thriller Killing Lincoln he opens the book with shifting point of views between Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, and the front lines of the increasingly hostile Civil War. Taking place at the end of the war, O’Reilly goes into great detail describing the malicious battle between two famous generals. Robert E. Lee, general of the confederate army and Ulysses S. grant, general of the Union forces. Detailed plans for battle and battle strategies are explored for both the Union and the Confederacy. Lincoln’s hopes and fears for the end of the war and the end of the Confederacy are exposed as the book counts down the days leading up to his death. Important battles such as the battle for High Bridge are documented through primary
In much need of food and supplies Robert E. Lee marched them towards Amelia Courthouse, only to find scavengers had taken all of the food and supplies Robert E. Lee had relied on to fuel his army. His best bet now is to march 100 miles to the next closest supplies. These are the type of conditions these soldiers had to endure throughout the Civil War. Lee unwillingly surrenders at Appomattox courthouse, ending the war, but not the hatred many southerners still felt for the North. A man of the name John Wilkes Booth feels this hatred, and lets it fuel him. Booth is a well-known actor, betrothed to Lucy Lambert Hale. Booth is also a confederate sympathizer, and although expressing his feelings about the South to Lucy on several occasions, he never tells her of his plans to kill Lincoln. Booth is not alone in his endeavors though, he enlists the help of other men who share the same beliefs as him, and who he believes have something to offer the operation. At first Booth only imagines kidnapping the president, but as his hatred grows, assassination he decides is the only way. Lincoln is not the only target in his master plan. Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, and William Seward were all supposed to die