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After Appomattox

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Author : Gregory P. Downs
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-13

After Appomattox written by Gregory P. Downs and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with History categories.

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.

Advice After Appomattox

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Author : Brooks D. Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 1987

Advice After Appomattox written by Brooks D. Simpson and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

General Robert E Lee After Appomattox

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Author : Franklin Lafayette Riley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971

General Robert E Lee After Appomattox written by Franklin Lafayette Riley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.

General Robert E Lee After Appomattox

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Author : Franklin L. Riley
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27

General Robert E Lee After Appomattox written by Franklin L. Riley and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

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Obstinate Heroism

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Author : Steven J. Ramold
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2020-03-15

Obstinate Heroism written by Steven J. Ramold and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-15 with History categories.

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.

Ends Of War

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Author : Caroline E. Janney
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2021-09-13

Ends Of War written by Caroline E. Janney and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-13 with History categories.

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.

West From Appomattox

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Author : Heather Cox Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-28

West From Appomattox written by Heather Cox Richardson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-28 with History categories.

“This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics” (Publishers Weekly). The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many ways, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners forged a national identity that united three very different regions into a country that could become a world power. A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book tracks the formation of the American middle class while stretching the boundaries of our understanding of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson ties the North and West into the post–Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South. By weaving together the experiences of real individuals who left records in their own words—from ordinary Americans such as a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer, to prominent historical figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull—Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America.

General Robert E Lee After Appomattox

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Author : Franklin L. 1868-1929 Riley
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-03

General Robert E Lee After Appomattox written by Franklin L. 1868-1929 Riley and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with categories.

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General Robert E Lee After Appomattox Classic Reprint

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Author : Franklin L. Riley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-17

General Robert E Lee After Appomattox Classic Reprint written by Franklin L. Riley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Excerpt from General Robert E. Lee After Appomattox Shortly after the death of General Robert E. Lee the faculty of Washington and Lee University began the preparation of a "Lee Memorial Volume," but circumstances "delayed and finally prevented the publication" of this work. The manuscripts that had been prepared by members of the faculty and other papers that had been collected for this volume were turned over to Dr. J. William Jones and incorporated in his Personal Reminiscences of Gen. R. E. Lee, which was published in 1874. Among the "faculty contributions" to that volume were the valuable sketches by Dr. J. L. Kirkpatrick, Professor of Moral Science, by Dr. Edward S. Joynes, Professor of English, and by Col. William Preston Johnston, Professor of History. In June, 1917, the trustees of the university decided to collect all facts, then available, on General Lee's connection with the institution. The executive committee of the board later requested the professor of history of the university to undertake this work. In carrying out his commission he sent appeals to all living "Lee Alumni," as far as their addresses could be obtained, asking for every item of information, however small, that they could furnish, relative to their college days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

General Robert E Lee After Appomattox

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Author : Franklin Lafayette Riley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930

After Appomattox

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