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The document provides three paragraphs from the book "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" and asks the reader to add background and analysis to each. 1. The first paragraph discusses how Easter Sunday 1865 became known as Black Easter after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, as ministers rushed to rewrite sermons to address the president's death. 2. The second paragraph introduces Thomas Jones, a valuable secret agent for the Confederacy who operated along the borders of Union and Confederate territory using his knowledge of the rivers. 3. The third paragraph provides background that Jones' service to the Confederacy cost him, as he was arrested and imprisoned by the Union before the Confederate evacuation of Richmond left him unpaid the $2,300 he was owed, making

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The document provides three paragraphs from the book "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" and asks the reader to add background and analysis to each. 1. The first paragraph discusses how Easter Sunday 1865 became known as Black Easter after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, as ministers rushed to rewrite sermons to address the president's death. 2. The second paragraph introduces Thomas Jones, a valuable secret agent for the Confederacy who operated along the borders of Union and Confederate territory using his knowledge of the rivers. 3. The third paragraph provides background that Jones' service to the Confederacy cost him, as he was arrested and imprisoned by the Union before the Confederate evacuation of Richmond left him unpaid the $2,300 he was owed, making

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Name:

Date:
Hour:
As we read chapter 7 in Chasing Lincolns Killer, consider some of the paragraphs and their
CBEAR format. Here you have been given the Claim and the Evidence for certain paragraphs.
To each of the following paragraphs, add Background so a reader could read only that
paragraph and still understand what they are reading. Then, add Analysis for the Evidence
provided to further explain to the reader the importance of what the paragraph says. Last, when
you have written your Background and Analysis statements, indicate with a parenthesis or
highlighter where they should be placed in the paragraph.
Example
The end [for Lincoln] was coming fast. Surgeon General Barnes placed his finger on the pulse
in Lincolns neck. Dr. Leale placed his finger on the pulse in Lincolns wrist. Another doctor
placed his hand over Lincolns heart. The doctors and nearly every man in the room took
watches out of their pockets. (p. 102)
Background: The shot which had penetrated Lincolns head only earlier the previous evening
had completely incapacitated Lincoln. He had not woken since and his doctors could only wait
for the final breath.
Analysis: At the late hour of the morning, all the doctors took Lincolns pulse at different
locations in order to get the most accurate account of his time of death. The fact that they all
knew to take the pulse at the same times shows that Lincoln was undoubtedly about to die.
1. Easter Sunday 1865 would forever be known as Black Easter to those who lived
through it. Abraham Lincolns Murder transformed a time of rejoicing in the capital to a
time of mourning. Across the country, ministers stayed up late Saturday night and by
candle or lamp wrote out the final words of sermons they began composing as soon as
they heard the terrible news of the presidents death. (p. 115)
Background:

Analysis:

2. [Thomas] Jones was a valuable and mysterious secret agent operating along
the watery borders between Union and Confederacy territory. The Union army had never
caught him in action -- he was a river ghost to the boys in blue uniforms. His knowledge
of the river enabled him to calculate the best time to begin a trip across. (p. 118)
Background:

Analysis:

3. Joness service to the Confederacy had cost him a great deal. Suspected of
disloyalty to the Union, federal forces arrested and jailed him for months at the Old
Capital Prison in Washington. When Jones went to the Confederate capital, Richmond,
at the beginning of April 1865 to collect the money owed him by the Confederacy, he
discovered that the army had evacuated the city and he went unpaid. He lost $2300
owed to him for three years of service, along with all the money he had invested in
Confederate bonds at the beginning of the war. All this meant Jones needed as much
money as he could lay his hands on. (p. 119)
Background:

Analysis:

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