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Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox

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Availability:In StockContributor:William MarvelSeries:Civil War AmericaPublish date:2006-02-27Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807857038ISBN-10:807857033UPC:9780807857038Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), United StatesSize:9.20 x 6.72 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SCMN6DAN1B
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807857038ISBN-10:807857033UPC:9780807857038Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), United StatesSize:9.20 x 6.72 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SCMN6DAN1B
Marvel, William: - William Marvel's many books include A Place Called Appomattox, Andersonville: The Last Depot, and The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War, all published by The University of North Carolina Press. He lives in South Conway, New Hampshire.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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