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Title: The Road to Appomattox by Robert Hendrickson ISBN: 0-471-14884-9 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 06 August, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Summary: There are Better Books on this Subject Elsewhere
Comment: Why do we need another general history of the closing year of the American Civil War? The answer: we don't, not if the history is "The Road to Appomattox." There are, of course, ample reasons to explore again that last year of the war. Perhaps there are new sources to be mined. Perhaps there are new questions to be pondered in considering that strange, sad conflict in 1864-1865. Perhaps there are new insights that might be gleaned from the reconsideration of the wartime experience. The best history written today combines each of these elements to alter perspective and advance understanding.

Unfortunately, "The Road to Appomattox" accomplishes none of these critical tasks. It claims to be a "vivid description" of the last year of the war from the point that Ulysses S. Grant took command of all Union forces in the spring of 1864 until the capitulation of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. That may be the book's one positive attribute, for there are certainly no new insights and perspectives offered. But even as an elegant literary exercise I would recommend over this book Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Stillness at Appomattox" (Doubleday, 1953); Allan Nevins' last book in his eight volume series, "The War for the Union: The Organized War to Victory, 1864-1865" (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971); and the last volume of Shelby Foote's trilogy, "The Civil War: A Narrative" (Random House, 1974). All of these cover the same subject, and do so with elegance and powerful insight.