β Scribed by Gleason, C. M.
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April 13, 1861: Rebel troops are across the Potomac River, only 800 feet from the White House and President Lincolnβbut a murderer is even closer . . .
With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begunβand an invasion of Washington, DC, from Secessionist Virginia seems imminent. As the population evacuates, the President is in desperate need of men to defend the capital.
Lincoln's trusted aide, Adam Speed Quinn, and Quinn's old friend from the Bloody Kansas conflict, Senator Jim Lane, hastily assemble a motley crew of just over a hundred men and garrison them in the East Room at theWhite House itself. Dubbed the Frontier Guard, these rough-and-tumble patriots steel themselves for the inevitable attack.
But even as dawn breaks with no Rebel strike, a single act of violence intrudes within the White House. One of the Frontier Guard lies dead in the oval library, throat slit ear to...
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