Lee's Last Retreat (eBook)

The Flight to Appomattox

William Marvel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2003
328 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-6210-0 (ISBN)

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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 the Appomattox campaign written primarily from contemporary source material, with a skeptical eye toward memoirs published well after the events they purport to describe. Marvel shows that during the final week of the war in Virginia, Lee's troops were more numerous yet far less faithful to their cause than has been suggested. He also proves accounts of the congenial intermingling of the armies at Appomattox to be shamelessly overblown and the renowned exchange of salutes to be apocryphal.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2003
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: 38 illus., 6 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Appomattox Court House • civil war in virginia • Robert E. Lee • the Army of Northern Virginia • the Army of the Potomac • Ulysses S. Grant
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-6210-X / 080786210X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-6210-0 / 9780807862100