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Title: Pursuit to Appomattox: The Last Battles (Civil War Series) by Jerry Korn ISBN: 0-8094-4788-6 Publisher: Time-Life Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Grant and Lee play out the final days of the Civil War
Comment: The end game of the Civil War was a chess game of trench warfare played out by Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant in a futile effort by the Army of Northern Virginia to keep the Confederate capitol of Richmond from falling to the assembled Union armies. In the spring of 1865 the Confederate trenches were finally stretched to their breaking point and it was 188 years ago today that Lee surrendered his army to Grant in the front parlor of the house of Wilmer McLean. "Pursuit to Appomattox: The Last Battles" focuses primarily on the armies of Lee and Grant, but goes Lee's surrender to those of other rebel armies, the capture of Jefferson Davis, and ends with retired Brigadier General Robert Anderson raising the same flag over Fort Sumter on April 14, 1865 that he had pulled won in surrender four years earlier.
Jerry Korn draws the duty of relating the last days of the war for this volume in the Time-Life series on The Civil War in five richly illustrated chapters. A Season of Forlorn Hope covers the final winter of the war, drawing a stark contrast between the Federal winter quarters at Poplar Grove with the bleak Confederate lines; the only significant military action is General Gordon's failed attack on Fort Stedman. Vengeance in the Carolinas continues the next chapter in William Tecumseh Sherman's army marching up from Georgia, as they visited destruction on the cradle of the Confederacy. Waterloo of the Confederacy relates the Battle of Five Forks, the flanking effort by Warren's V Corps and Sheridan's Federal cavalry that destroyed Pickett's troops and forced Lee to abandon Richmond in a last ditch effort to save the army. A Race for Survival contrasts the Union army entering Richmond, which was nothing like what we watched today on television with U.S. Marines entering Baghdad, with Grant pursuing Lee's army as it tried to join up with Johnston in North Carolina. With the Army of Northern Virginia effectively surrounded, Grant sent Lee a letter asking for him to surrender to avoid "any further effusion of blood."
The final chapter, Surrender with Honor, details not only Lee's desperate final attempts to avoid surrendering, but also the supreme arrogance of the flamboyant Custer during the final hours of the war. Even without his brutality against the Plains Indians his actions at this point speak to his ultimate lack of character. In contrast, the example of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in accepting the surrender of the Confederate troops speaks to the fact that wars do create heroes out of ordinary men. Like all volumes in The Civil War series "Pursuit to Appomattox" is illustrated with historic photographs, drawings, etchings, and paintings; a two-page spread offers three different paintings as Varied Views of the Surrender. The final photo section of the book shows the ruins of Richmond as this superb series draws to a close.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lee and Grant play out the final days of the Civil War
Comment: The end game of the Civil War was a chess game of trench warfare played out by Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant in a futile effort by the Army of Northern Virginia to keep the Confederate capitol of Richmond from falling to the assembled Union armies. In the spring of 1865 the Confederate trenches were finally stretched to their breaking point and it was 188 years ago today that Lee surrendered his army to Grant in the front parlor of the house of Wilmer McLean. "Pursuit to Appomattox: The Last Battles" focuses primarily on the armies of Lee and Grant, but goes Lee's surrender to those of other rebel armies, the capture of Jefferson Davis, and ends with retired Brigadier General Robert Anderson raising the same flag over Fort Sumter on April 14, 1865 that he had pulled won in surrender four years earlier.
Jerry Korn draws the duty of relating the last days of the war for this volume in the Time-Life series on The Civil War in five richly illustrated chapters. A Season of Forlorn Hope covers the final winter of the war, drawing a stark contrast between the Federal winter quarters at Poplar Grove with the bleak Confederate lines; the only significant military action is General Gordon's failed attack on Fort Stedman. Vengeance in the Carolinas continues the next chapter in William Tecumseh Sherman's army marching up from Georgia, as they visited destruction on the cradle of the Confederacy. Waterloo of the Confederacy relates the Battle of Five Forks, the flanking effort by Warren's V Corps and Sheridan's Federal cavalry that destroyed Pickett's troops and forced Lee to abandon Richmond in a last ditch effort to save the army. A Race for Survival contrasts the Union army entering Richmond, which was nothing like what we watched today on television with U.S. Marines entering Baghdad, with Grant pursuing Lee's army as it tried to join up with Johnston in North Carolina. With the Army of Northern Virginia effectively surrounded, Grant sent Lee a letter asking for him to surrender to avoid "any further effusion of blood."
The final chapter, Surrender with Honor, details not only Lee's desperate final attempts to avoid surrendering, but also the supreme arrogance of the flamboyant Custer during the final hours of the war. Even without his brutality against the Plains Indians his actions at this point speak to his ultimate lack of character. In contrast, the example of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in accepting the surrender of the Confederate troops speaks to the fact that wars do create heroes out of ordinary men. Like all volumes in The Civil War series "Pursuit to Appomattox" is illustrated with historic photographs, drawings, etchings, and paintings; a two-page spread offers three different paintings as Varied Views of the Surrender. The final photo section of the book shows the ruins of Richmond as this superb series draws to a close.
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