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Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox Paperback - 2006

by William Marvel


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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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In January of 1865 Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne decided to conclude his tour of the United States with a visit to Baltimore, which a discriminating foreign observer might consider the last city on the Washington rail corridor that remained safe from military threat.

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Debunking many of the myths that have surrounded the Confederate retreat to Appomattox, Marvel shows that Lee's last days with the Army of Northern Virginia were chaotic, marked by fierce skirmishes and an uncertain outcome.

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  • Title Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox
  • Author William Marvel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Date 2006-02-27
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780807857038 / 0807857033
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.72 x 0.77 in (23.37 x 17.07 x 1.96 cm)
  • Reading level 1570
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Virginia
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.738
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