Surrender At Appomattox

Author : Steven J. Ramold
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418026

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Obstinate Heroism by Steven J. Ramold Pdf

Despite popular belief, the Civil War did not end when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, in April 1865. The Confederacy still had tens of thousands of soldiers under arms, in three main field armies and countless smaller commands scattered throughout the South. Although pressed by Union forces at varying degrees, all of the remaining Confederate armies were capable of continuing the war if they chose to do so. But they did not, even when their political leaders ordered them to continue the fight. Convinced that most civilians no longer wanted to continue the war, the senior Confederate military leadership, over the course of several weeks, surrendered their armies under different circumstances. Gen. Joseph Johnston surrendered his army in North Carolina only after contentious negotiations with Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Gen. Richard Taylor ended the fighting in Alabama in the face of two massive Union incursions into the state rather than try to consolidate with other Confederate armies. Personal rivalry also played a part in his practical considerations to surrender. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith had the decision to surrender taken out of his hands—disastrous economic conditions in his Trans-Mississippi Department had eroded morale to such an extent that his soldiers demobilized themselves, leaving Kirby Smith a general without an army. The end of the Confederacy was a messy and complicated affair, a far cry from the tidy closure associated with the events at Appomattox.

Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469663388

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Ends of War by Caroline E. Janney Pdf

The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight. Fearing a guerrilla war, Grant extended the generous Appomattox terms to every rebel who would surrender himself. Provost marshals fanned out across Virginia and beyond, seeking nearly 18,000 of Lee's men who had yet to surrender. But the shock of Lincoln's assassination led Northern authorities to see threats of new rebellion in every rail depot and harbor where Confederates gathered for transport, even among those already paroled. While Federal troops struggled to keep order and sustain a fragile peace, their newly surrendered adversaries seethed with anger and confusion at the sight of Union troops occupying their towns and former slaves celebrating freedom. In this dramatic new history of the weeks and months after Appomattox, Caroline E. Janney reveals that Lee's surrender was less an ending than the start of an interregnum marked by military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and continued outbursts of violence. Janney takes readers from the deliberations of government and military authorities to the ground-level experiences of common soldiers. Ultimately, what unfolds is the messy birth narrative of the Lost Cause, laying the groundwork for the defiant resilience of rebellion in the years that followed.

Author : Elizabeth R. Varon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199347919

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Appomattox by Elizabeth R. Varon Pdf

Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Winner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs Symposium Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy Best Books of 2014, Civil War Monitor 6 Civil War Books to Read Now, Diane Rehm Show, NPR Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind -- it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of patriotism untainted by ideology. But as Elizabeth Varon reveals in this vividly narrated history, this rosy image conceals a seething debate over precisely what the surrender meant and what kind of nation would emerge from war. The combatants in that debate included the iconic Lee and Grant, but they also included a cast of characters previously overlooked, who brought their own understanding of the war's causes, consequences, and meaning. In Appomattox, Varon deftly captures the events swirling around that well remembered-but not well understood-moment when the Civil War ended. She expertly depicts the final battles in Virginia, when Grant's troops surrounded Lee's half-starved army, the meeting of the generals at the McLean House, and the shocked reaction as news of the surrender spread like an electric charge throughout the nation. But as Varon shows, the ink had hardly dried before both sides launched a bitter debate over the meaning of the war and the nation's future. For Grant, and for most in the North, the Union victory was one of right over wrong, a vindication of free society; for many African Americans, the surrender marked the dawn of freedom itself. Lee, in contrast, believed that the Union victory was one of might over right: the vast impersonal Northern war machine had worn down a valorous and unbowed South. Lee was committed to peace, but committed, too, to the restoration of the South's political power within the Union and the perpetuation of white supremacy. These two competing visions of the war's end paved the way not only for Southern resistance to reconstruction but also our ongoing debates on the Civil War, 150 years later. Did America's best days lie in the past or in the future? For Lee, it was the past, the era of the founding generation. For Grant, it was the future, represented by Northern moral and material progress. They held, in the end, two opposite views of the direction of the country-and of the meaning of the war that had changed that country forever.

Author : Candice F. Ransom
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1575055880

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Willie McLean and the Civil War Surrender by Candice F. Ransom Pdf

Relates how, in 1865, a boy named Willie McLean watched as General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War.

Author : United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D02234227V

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Appomattox Court House by United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications Pdf

Tells the story of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, which ended the Civil War, and the battles fought in the days before it. Also contains essays on events leading up to the Civil War and the implications of Appomattox for the post-Civil War generation, and a tourist's guide to the park.

Author : Gregory P. Downs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674241626

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After Appomattox by Gregory P. Downs Pdf

The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871—not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy.

Author : MacKinlay Kantor
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1402751249

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Lee and Grant at Appomattox by MacKinlay Kantor Pdf

From a Pulitzer Prize winner comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that ended the Civil War. MacKinlay Kantor captures all the emotions and the details of those few days: the aristocratic Lee’s feeling of resignation; Grant’s crippling headaches; and Lee’s request--which Grant generously allowed--to permit his soldiers to keep their horses so they could plant crops for food.

Author : Zachary Kent
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0516047329

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The Story of the Surrender at Appomattox Court House by Zachary Kent Pdf

The end of the Civil War and the momentous meeting between Lee and Grant.

Author : Frank P. Cauble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Appomattox Campaign, 1865
ISBN : WISC:89062262118

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The Surrender Proceedings, April 9, 1865, Appomattox Court House by Frank P. Cauble Pdf

Author : Andrew Santella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437968643

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Surrender at Appomattox by Andrew Santella Pdf

In April 1865, a legendary moment in the story of the United States, two great Civil War generals met in a small Virginia village called Appomattox Court House. The nation had been at war for four years. More than 600,000 soldiers had been killed. At last, Confederate General Robert E. Lee was ready to accept defeat. He surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Other Confederate armies remained in the field, but Lee¿s surrender signaled the end of the South¿s attempt to break away from the Union. The war¿s end was finally at hand. This is a book in the We the People series which explores every era of U.S. history, examining key events that have shaped the course of the nation, while clearly defining their place in history. Illustrations.

Author : Mark L. Bradley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877067

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This Astounding Close by Mark L. Bradley Pdf

Even after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, the Civil War continued to be fought, and surrenders negotiated, on different fronts. The most notable of these occurred at Bennett Place, near Durham, North Carolina, when Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Union General William T. Sherman. In this first full-length examination of the end of the war in North Carolina, Mark Bradley traces the campaign leading up to Bennett Place. Alternating between Union and Confederate points of view and drawing on his readings of primary sources, including numerous eyewitness accounts and the final muster rolls of the Army of Tennessee, Bradley depicts the action as it was experienced by the troops and the civilians in their path. He offers new information about the morale of the Army of Tennessee during its final confrontation with Sherman's much larger Union army. And he advances a fresh interpretation of Sherman's and Johnston's roles in the final negotiations for the surrender.

Author : William Marvel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860830

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A Place Called Appomattox by William Marvel Pdf

Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an accident of fate brought the armies of Lee and Grant together there. It is that Appomattox--the typical small Confederate community--that William Marvel portrays in this deeply researched, compelling study. He tells the story of the Civil War from the perspective of those who inhabited one of the conflict's most famous sites. The village sprang into existence just as Texas became a state and reached its peak not long before Lee and Grant met there. The postwar decline of the village mirrored that of the rural South as a whole, and Appomattox served as the focal point for both Lost Cause myth-making and reconciliation reveries. Marvel draws on original documents, diaries, and letters composed as the war unfolded to produce a clear and credible portrait of everyday life in this town, as well as examining the galvanizing events of April 1865. He also scrutinizes Appomattox the national symbol, exposing and explaining some of the cherished myths surrounding the surrender there.

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504024181

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Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton Pdf

A vivid account of the early battles, first in the Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: “One of America’s foremost Civil War authorities” (Kirkus Reviews). The first book in Bruce Catton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln’s Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered President Abraham Lincoln entrusted the dashing, charismatic McClellan with the creation of the Union’s Army of the Potomac and the responsibility of leading it to a swift and decisive victory against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Although a brilliant tactician who was beloved by his troops and embraced by the hero-hungry North, McClellan’s ego and ambition ultimately put him at loggerheads with his commander in chief—a man McClellan considered unworthy of the presidency. McClellan’s weaknesses were exposed during the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history, which ended in a stalemate even though the Confederate troops were greatly outnumbered. After Antietam, Lincoln ordered McClellan’s removal from command, and the Union entered the war’s next chapter having suffered thousands of casualties and with great uncertainty ahead. America’s premier chronicler of the nation’s brutal internecine conflict, Bruce Catton is renowned for his unparalleled ability to bring a detailed and vivid immediacy to Civil War battlefields and military strategy sessions. With tremendous depth and insight, he presents legendary commanders and common soldiers in all their complex and heartbreaking humanity.

Author : Edward M. Boykin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Richmond (Va.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019369149

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The Falling Flag by Edward M. Boykin Pdf

Author : Joseph Wheelan
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306821097

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Terrible Swift Sword by Joseph Wheelan Pdf

Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman's famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan's innovative cavalry tactics and "total war" strategy became staples of twentieth-century warfare. After the war, Sheridan ruthlessly suppressed the raiding Plains Indians much as he had the Confederates, by killing warriors and burning villages, but he also defended reservation Indians from corrupt agents and contractors. Sheridan, an enthusiastic hunter and conservationist, later ordered the US cavalry to occupy and operate Yellowstone National Park to safeguard it from commercial exploitation.