| Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox, Large Print Ed Contributor(s): Marvel, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807866059 ISBN-13: 9780807866054 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $50.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 973.738 |
| Lexile Measure: 1690 |
| Series: Civil War America |
| Physical Information: 1.34" H x 7" W x 10" (2.52 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |