The Civil War
Subtitle: Red River to Appomattox, Vol. 3
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
Published: March 1991
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1112
ISBN-13: 9780370316635
Subjects: Civil war; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; USA; c 1800 to c 1900
First sentence: LATE AFTERNOON OF A RAW, GUSTY DAY in early spring - March 8, a Tuesday, 1864 - the desk clerk at Willard's Hotel, two blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, glanced up to find an officer accompanied by a boy of thirteen facing him across the polished oak of the registration counter and inquiring whether he could get a room.