Title: Lee's last retreat : the flight to Appomattox /
Authors: Marvel, William.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Lee, Robert E.; Appomattox Campaign, 1865.
Abstract: "Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. As the popular imagination would have it, Robert E. Lee's tattered, starving, but devoted troops found themselves hopelessly surrounded through no fault of their beloved commander, who surrendered them rather than sacrifice their lives. Victors and vanquished met at Appomattox in a surrender ceremony marked by a spirit of mutual regard, with the erstwhile opponents exchanging snappy salutes as the Confederates marched in to stack their weapons."
Contents: 1. Spring -- 2. Monday, April -- 3. Tuesday, April -- 4. Wednesday, April -- 5. Thursday, April -- 6. Friday, April -- 7. Saturday, April -- 8. Sunday, April -- 9. Peace -- Appendix A: Troop Strength -- Appendix B: The Fatal Delay -- Appendix C: The Removal of Anderson, Johnson, and Pickett -- Order of Battle -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources and Acknowledgments -- Index.