Seth Grahame-Smith: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

*A circular fifty-two-acre park often used as campgrounds for Union troops.

*Activated charcoal has long been used a treatment for poisoning. It works by absorbing toxins in the intestines before they can reach the bloodstream.

*The Battle of Fort Stevens marks the only occasion in American history a sitting president was under fire in combat.

*Civil War Misc. Collection, USAMHI.

*Grapeshot is a type of cannon ammunition similar to a shotgun shell. Small metal balls are packed tightly together in a projectile. When fired, the balls spread out to cause a greater damage. Grapeshot was packed into canisters and used for close-range engagement.

**Duncan Papers, New Jersey Historical Society.

*Alexander Gardner, the Washington, D.C., photographer who would also take Abe’s last portrait.

* Macbeth , Act V, Scene 5.

*From Abe’s favorite poem by Scotsman William Knox.

* Julius Caesar , Act V, Scene 4.

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