Lincoln and the War's End /
On the night of his reelection on November 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln called on the nation to "re-unite in a common effort, to save our common country." By April 9 of the following year, the Union had achieved this goal with the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to General...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: worth more than a battle won
- Armies on the march
- Unfinished business
- Advance and retreat
- Confederacy on the ropes
- Deathblow to slavery
- Negotiating peace
- With malice toward none
- At the seat of war
- "This means victory"
- Sitting in Davis's seat
- The road to Appomattox
- War's end
- Epilogue: the grand farewell.