William Harrison, a native of Richmond, got an early taste of war when his master enlisted in the Confederate army and brought Harrison along with him as his body servant; after the master was captured at Bull's Gap, Tennessee, ...
Appomattox: The Last Days of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia encompasses the defense and evacuation of the Confederate capital of Richmond, the horrific combat in the trenches of Petersburg, General Robert E. Lee's withdrawal ...
Whether it occurred on March 27 or 28, Porter wrote the following year in response to officials, chiefly Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had severely criticized Sherman for his liberal terms to Johnston at the end in North ...
The purpose of the Jones family outing was to witness a lynching—“to see a nigger hung,” in Elder's words. She was told he was being punished because he had “kilt a man.” “I never saw so many people 'fore, as the number there to see him ...
Appomattox premiered at the McGuire Proscenium Stage in the Guthrie Theater on 5 October, 2012.
Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Winner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs Symposium Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table Finalist, Jefferson ...
The saga of the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia, concludes in this tenth volume of the Civil War Battle series with sons in every theater of the war.
"Appomattox is the story of the retreat of Lee's army, the constant skirmishing which accompanies that retreat, and Lee's surrender to Grant on April 9, 1865"--BOOK JACKET. "Appomattox is told...