The Appomattox Campaign

Author : Chris Calkins
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appomattox Campaign written by Chris Calkins and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-07-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous accounts of the Civil War's last major campaign have often neglected the actual maneuvers and tactics of the units involved. This new addition to the Great Campaigns series features a tactical approach to the final drama of the Civil War. Innovative maps, sidebars and charts complement a dramatic narrative. The fall of Petersburg and Richmond, the last battles at Five Forks, Sailor's Creek, and Dinwiddie Court House, and the final surrender at Appomattox are all described by an author whose knowledge of the historical sources is equaled by his familiarity with the area over which the armies marched and fought.The author provides a day-to-day narrative of this fascinating campaign, with a series of specially commissioned maps that make clear the complex series of maneuvers that finally brought Lee's beleaguered army to bay. Special sidebars highlight many incidents and personalities of the campaign, including never-before-published information on African-Americans in Confederate service. Record-keeping, especially for the Confederates, was difficult in the last hectic days of the war, and readers will find here the most complete order of battle available for both sides.

Author : Ron Field
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472807537
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appomattox 1865 written by Ron Field and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an internationally renowned expert on US history, this highly illustrated title details the curtain-closing campaign of the American Civil War in the East. Ulysses S Grant's Army of the Potomac and Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia faced up to one another one last time, resulting in Lee conducting a desperate series of withdrawals and retreats down the line of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, hoping to join forces with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee. This book, with informative full-colour illustrations and maps, tells the full story of the skirmishes and pursuits that led directly to Lee's surrender, as his frantic efforts to extricate his forces from ever more perilous positions became increasingly untenable.

Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640775
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petersburg to Appomattox written by Caroline E. Janney and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 House. War veterans and generations of historians alike have focused on the seemingly inevitable defeat of the Confederacy after Lee's flight from Petersburg and recalled the generous surrender terms set forth by Grant, thought to facilitate peace and to establish the groundwork for sectional reconciliation. But 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. Assessing events from the siege of Petersburg to the immediate aftermath of Lee's surrender, Petersburg to Appomattox blends military, social, cultural, and political history to reassess the ways in which the war ended and examines anew the meanings attached to one of the Civil War's most significant sites, Appomattox. Contributors are Peter S. Carmichael, William W. Bergen, Susannah J. Ural, Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh, William C. Davis, Keith Bohannon, Caroline E. Janney, Stephen Cushman, and Elizabeth R. Varon.

Author : Elizabeth R. Varon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199751714
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appomattox written by Elizabeth R. Varon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the events surrounding Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House, focusing on the debate over the meaning of the Civil War that immediately followed its end.

Author : William Marvel
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807857038
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lee's Last Retreat written by William Marvel and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. As the popular imagination would have it, Robert E. Lee's tattered, starving, but devoted troops found themselves hopelessly surrounded thro

Author : Military Historical Society of Massachusetts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shenandoah Campaigns of 1862 and 1864 and the Appomattox Campaign, 1865 written by Military Historical Society of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward G. Longacre
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811700511
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cavalry at Appomattox written by Edward G. Longacre and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final campaign of the American Civil War in the eastern theatre witnessed the zenith of American cavalry warfare, the salient aspect of the operation. The Appomattox Campaign not only determined whether the conflict would continue, but also which army had better assimilated the intricate, difficult lessons of mounted service. The outcome indicated why the Union troopers emerged victorious: They displayed greater tactical versatility -- the ability to fight mounted and afoot -- whereas the Confederate horsemen considered the outdated 'saber charge' the essence of mounted battle.

Author : Burleigh Cushing Rodick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appomattox written by Burleigh Cushing Rodick and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with peace as well as war. It includes information on the armistics, negotiations, the peace terms and good will that developed between the two armies after the surrender.

Author : United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appomattox Court House written by United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, which ended the Civil War, and the battles fought in the days before it. Also contains essays on events leading up to the Civil War and the implications of Appomattox for the post-Civil War generation, and a tourist's guide to the park.

Author : J. C. Gorman
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lee's Last Campaign written by J. C. Gorman and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lee's Last Campaign" presents an incredible history of the United States during the Civil War (1861-1865). The writer discusses Appomattox Campaign, the last campaign of Robert Edward Lee, a Confederate general who served the Confederate States of America during the war. He led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy's strongest army, earning a stature as a competent tactician.