Scholar, Soldier and Private Agent for President Lincoln
by
Patricia B. Burnette
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Illinois regiment. In 1864 he and James Gilmore talked to Jefferson Davis about terms of peace. Lincoln recognized his many abilities and invited Jaquess...