Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia
Author | : United States. National Park Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (Va.) |
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Author | : United States. National Park Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (Va.) |
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Author | : Charles Marshall |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803282629 |
Charles Marshall was appointed aide-de-camp to Robert E. Lee on 21 March 1862, and from then until the surrender, he stood at the general?s side. A military secretary, he compiled a remarkable, intimate account of the day-to-day wartime experience of the Confederacy?s most celebrated--and enigmatic--military figure. Marshall?s papers are of three sorts: those intended for a projected life of Lee, those intended for an account of the campaign at Gettysburg, and notes on events of the war. Collected here, these papers provide a unique firsthand look at Lee?s generalship?from the most complete account ever given of the fateful orders issued to Jeb Stuart at Gettysburg, to the only testimony from a Southern witness of the scene in McLean?s house at Appomattox. Marshall?s commentary addresses some of the war?s more intriguing questions: Whose idea was it to fight the second Manassas? What caused Jackson?s delays in the Battles of the Seven Days? Who devised the flank march around Hooker at Chancellorsville? This book?s insights into Robert E. Lee and his military strategy and its close-up report on the Confederacy?s war qualify it as an indispensable part of America?s historical record.
Author | : Candice Ransom |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2004-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1575058340 |
Eleven-year-old Willie McLean knows that General Lee will defeat the Yankees and win the Civil War, he just knows it. When a battle moves to the fields near his home in Appomattox, Virginia, Willie’s thrilled—especially when General Lee, himself, comes to Willie’s house! But then General Grant comes, too. Overhearing the two men talk, Willie hears one word: Surrender. Is the war really over?
Author | : United States. National Park Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Appomattox Campaign, 1865 |
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Author | : United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2003-04-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780912627700 |
National Park Service Handbook 160. 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. Item 649.
Author | : MacKinlay Kantor |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781402751240 |
From a Pulitzer Prize winner comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that ended the Civil War. MacKinlay Kantor captures all the emotions and the details of those few days: the aristocratic Lee’s feeling of resignation; Grant’s crippling headaches; and Lee’s request--which Grant generously allowed--to permit his soldiers to keep their horses so they could plant crops for food.
Author | : United States. National Park Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Appomattox Court House National Historical Park |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Marvel |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2016-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807860832 |
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 accident of fate brought the armies of Lee and Grant together there. It is that Appomattox--the typical small Confederate community--that William Marvel portrays in this deeply researched, compelling study. He tells the story of the Civil War from the perspective of those who inhabited one of the conflict's most famous sites. The village sprang into existence just as Texas became a state and reached its peak not long before Lee and Grant met there. The postwar decline of the village mirrored that of the rural South as a whole, and Appomattox served as the focal point for both Lost Cause myth-making and reconciliation reveries. Marvel draws on original documents, diaries, and letters composed as the war unfolded to produce a clear and credible portrait of everyday life in this town, as well as examining the galvanizing events of April 1865. He also scrutinizes Appomattox the national symbol, exposing and explaining some of the cherished myths surrounding the surrender there.
Author | : Gregory P. Downs |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674241622 |
“Original and revelatory.” —David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass Avery O. Craven Award Finalist A Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the Year In April 1865, Robert E. Lee wrote to Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. The distinction proved prophetic. After Appomattox reveals that the Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. Instead, a second phase of the war began which lasted until 1871—not the project euphemistically called Reconstruction, but a state of genuine belligerence whose mission was to shape the peace. Using its war powers, the U.S. Army oversaw an ambitious occupation, stationing tens of thousands of troops in outposts across the defeated South. This groundbreaking history shows that the purpose of the occupation was to crush slavery in the face of fierce and violent resistance, but there were limits to its effectiveness: the occupying army never really managed to remake the South. “The United States Army has been far too neglected as a player—a force—in the history of Reconstruction... Downs wants his work to speak to the present, and indeed it should.” —David W. Blight, The Atlantic “Striking... Downs chronicles...a military occupation that was indispensable to the uprooting of slavery.” —Boston Globe “Downs makes the case that the final end to slavery, and the establishment of basic civil and voting rights for all Americans, was ‘born in the face of bayonets.’ ...A remarkable, necessary book.” —Slate