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Lee's Last Retreat : the Flight to Appomattox.

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 even...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Marvel, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 an.
Physical Description:1 online resource (610 pages)
ISBN:9780807862100
080786210X