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Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox, Large Print Ed

Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox, Large Print Ed

Paperback (28 Feb 2010)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate myth making 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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ISBN: 9780807866054
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
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Language: English
Weight: 1143g
Height: 254mm
Width: 178mm
Spine width: 34mm