A Ruined Land
Subtitle: The End of the Civil War
Publisher: Wiley
Published: January 30, 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780471395256
Copyright date: 1999
First sentence: VENTING CLOUDS OF OILY SMOKE, the troop transports cast off from Hilton Head, glided into the Broad River, and vanished behind streamers of fog drifting in off the Atlantic.
Notes: 2000 Lincoln Prize finalist
Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: Time line; title: Cast of characters; title: Part one : War and revolution.; title: Honey Hill; title: The laws of war; title: The Sherman lands; title: Part two : The end of the war.; title: The smoky march; title: The shell of rebellion; title: Booth and his crime; title: Part three : Something like peace.; title: Exile and return; title: Crime, punishment, absolution; title: Fallow and neglected lands; title: Coda : 1876-1877