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True Crime Published 2017-2020
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Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee
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Sep 07, 2017 08:57AM
Death of an Assassin came out on Sept. 1. It deals with 19th-century Germany's coldest murder ever solved and the murderer's connection to Robert E. Lee. Amazon link: http://viewBook.at/Assassin
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"From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen volunteer defender. Military records identify him, but none of the Americans knew about his past life of crime."
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