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A Place Called Appomattox
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: William Marvel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-11 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an a
Lee's Last Retreat
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: William Marvel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10-15 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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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 th
After Appomattox
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Gregory P. Downs
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-13 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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“Original and revelatory.” —David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass Avery O. Craven Award Finalist A Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of th
Ends of War
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Caroline E. Janney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-13 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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The Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a rele
Petersburg to Appomattox
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Caroline E. Janney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Military Campaigns of the Civi

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The last days of fighting in the Civil War's eastern theater have been wrapped in mythology since the moment of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court Hou