Lee's Last Retreat

The Flight to Appomattox

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military
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Author: William Marvel ISBN: 9780807862100
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Publication: October 15, 2003
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English
Author: William Marvel
ISBN: 9780807862100
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication: October 15, 2003
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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