Prologue -- The Early Years, 1819-1848 -- Jacksonville, Illinois -- Quincy, Illinois -- Chaplain, 6th Illinois Cavalry -- Colonel, 73rd Illinois Infantry -- Private Agent for President Lincoln -- Trial for Murder by Abortion -- Carpetbagger in Arkansas and Mississippi -- Townley Fortune in England -- Trials in London and Time in Pentonville Prison -- Return to America for His Last Years -- Epilogue: A Review of James F. Jaquess' Life.
Summary:
"James Jaquess was a preacher, a college president and colonel of an Illinois regiment. Lincoln invited Jaquess to serve as one of his personal agents. After the Civil War, he was tried for murder, failed as a carpetbagger and convinced family and friends to invest in a bonds venture that ended in his poverty and British prison sentence"--Provided by publisher.
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