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Language: en
Pages: 424
Pages: 424
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-11 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an a
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. As the popular imagination would have it, Rob
Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-13 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
“Original and revelatory.” —David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass Avery O. Craven Award Finalist A Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of th
Language: en
Pages: 658
Pages: 658
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-01 - Publisher: Vintage
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live tog
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Military Campaigns of the Civi
The last days of fighting in the Civil War's eastern theater have been wrapped in mythology since the moment of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court Hou