Lee's Last Retreat : the Flight to Appomattox.

Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. William Marvel offers the first history of the Appomattox campaign written primarily from contemporary source material, with a skeptical eye toward memoirs published well after the even...

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Main Author: Marvel, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
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505 0 |a Cover Page; [Lee's Last Retreat]; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Maps and Illustrations; Foreword; Epigraph; CHAPTER 1 [Spring]; CHAPTER 2 [Monday, April 3]; CHAPTER 3 [Tuesday, April 4]; CHAPTER 4 [Wednesday, April 5]; CHAPTER 5 [Thursday, April 6]; CHAPTER 6 [Friday, April 7]; CHAPTER 7 [Saturday, April 8]; CHAPTER 8 [Sunday, April 9]; CHAPTER 9 [Peace]; APPENDIX A Troop Strength; APPENDIX B The Fatal Delay; APPENDIX C The Removal of Anderson, Johnson, & Pickett; Order of Battle; Notes; Bibliography; Sources and Acknowledgments; Index. 
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