{"title":"Bruce Chadwick","description":"Bruce Chadwick is a former journalist and author of eight works of history, including The First American Army, George Washington's War, The General and Mrs. Washington, Brother Against Brother, Two American Presidents, Traveling the Underground Railroad and The Reel Civil War. He lectures in American history at Rutgers University and also teaches writing at New Jersey City University.","products":[{"product_id":"i-am-murdered-george-wythe-thomas-jefferson-and-the-killing-that-shocked-a-new-nation-paperback","title":"I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state.\" \u003ci\u003e-Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home. Doubled over in agony, he stumbled to the kitchen in search of help. There he found his maid, Lydia Broadnax, and his young protegéeacute;, Michael Brown, who were also writhing in distress. Hours later, when help arrived, Wythe was quick to tell anyone who would listen, \"I am murdered.\" Over the next two weeks, as Wythe suffered a long and painful death, insults would be added to his mortal injury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Am Murdered \u003c\/i\u003etells the bizarre true story of Wythe's death and the subsequent trial of his grandnephew and namesake, George Wythe Sweeney, for the crime--unquestionably the most sensational and talked-about court case of the era. Hinging on hit-and-miss forensics, the unreliability of medical autopsies, the prevalence of poisoning, race relations, slavery, and the law, Sweeney's trial serves as a window into early nineteenth- century America. 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Lee, head of the Army of Northern Virginia, invaded the North. He would cross the Potomac River and head towards Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with the goal of seizing the trains which would then take his army into Philadelphia and perhaps even New York City. He hoped that these victories would force U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to surrender. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs he pushed north, Lee was operating without his cavalry leader, J.E.B. Stuart, whom he had allowed to go on a useless scouting mission. At the same time, the Union army, now led by little known commander George Meade was tracking Lee and his men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth sides clashed at Gettysburg, a tiny Pennsylvania farm village on July 1 in what would be a three-day battle that would change the course of the war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe battle would reveal the mettle of the unheralded Meade and would also call into question General Lee's reputation as a legendary commander when he unleashed the ill planned and ill prepared Pickett's Charge. The battle proved costly to both sides. Some 50,000 men were killed across the battlefield and the defeated Lee's army would never again invade the North. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter so much bloodshed, President Lincoln's history-making and eloquent Gettysburg Address came to embody the essence of the war. 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