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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Janney, Caroline E. Petersburg to Appomattox : The End of the War in Virginia. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2018 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Caroline E Janney |
ISBN: | 9781469640778 1469640775 9781469640785 1469640783 |
OCLC Number: | 1028937384 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Grant finally takes command : how the race to Appomattox was won / William W. Bergen -- We can keep all the Yankees back that they can send : morale among Hood's Texas Brigade's soldiers and their families, 1864-1865 / Susannah J. Ural -- A whole lot of blame to go around : the Confederate collapse at Five Forks / Peter S. Carmichael -- Lucky inspiration : Philip Sheridan's uncertain road to triumph with the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac / Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh -- Lee, Breckinridge, and Campbell : the Confederate peacemakers of 1865 / William C. Davis -- Many valuable records and documents were lost to history : the destruction of Confederate military records during the Appomattox Campaign / Keith Bohannon -- We were not paroled : the surrenders of Lee's men beyond Appomattox Court House / Caroline E. Janney -- Sheridan's personal memoirs and the Appomattox Campaign / Stephen Cushman -- The last hour of the slaveholders' rebellion : African American discourse on Lee's surrender -- Elizabeth R. Varon. |
Series Title: | Military campaigns of the Civil War. |
Responsibility: | edited by Caroline E. Janney. |
Abstract:
The last days of fighting in the Civil War's eastern theatre have been wrapped in mythology since the moment of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House. This volume of essays by leading scholars of the Civil War era offers a fresh and nuanced view of the eastern war's closing chapter, blending military, social, cultural, and political history to reassess the ways in which the war ended.
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