Appomattox

  • Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
    By Elizabeth R. Varon

    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
    By Michael E. Haskew

    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 ...

  • Appomattox: The Last Days of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
    By Michael E. Haskew

    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 ...

  • Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
    By Elizabeth R. Varon

    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
    By Christopher Hampton

    Appomattox premiered at the McGuire Proscenium Stage in the Guthrie Theater on 5 October, 2012.

  • Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
    By Elizabeth R. Varon

    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 ...

  • Appomattox
    By James Reasoner

    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: The Passing of the Armies
    By James W. Wensyel

    "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...