The 1862 Plot to Kidnap Jefferson Davis

Victor Vifquain's memoir is an engaging, firsthand account of a bold attempt to kidnap the president of the Confederate States of America. Archived for nearly a century, the chronicle of this previously unknown and daring plot has been brought to light by historians Jeffrey H. Smith, Vifquain's great-great grandson, and Phillip Thomas Tucker in a meticulously edited and annotated volume.

The plot to ride into Richmond and capture Jefferson Davis was concocted by three brash adventurers, wh...