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Author : Cecil C. Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890306854
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Genesis of Appomattox, Virginia written by Cecil C. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Ragland Featherston
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806347600
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Appomattox County written by Nathaniel Ragland Featherston and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in thirteen installments of U.S. Scots magazine, Dr. Millett's account of Scottish emigration to colonial America is, arguably, the best introduction to its subject. Chapter topics include the Scottish homeland and its peoples; the push/pull of emigration/immigration; Scottish colonial settlements prior to 1707; the establishment of the principal 18th-century Scottish communities along the Chesapeake, the Carolinas and Georgia, and throughout the Middle Colonies; and the role of Scots during the American Revolution. Readers will also find invaluable narrative and statistical background information on the Scottish presence in the colonies.
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Publisher : S. E. Grose
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Appomattox Virginia Heritage written by and published by S. E. Grose. This book was released on with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Ragland Featherston
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The History of Appomattox, Virginia written by Nathaniel Ragland Featherston and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Appomattox County (Va.). School Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Historic Appomattox written by Appomattox County (Va.). School Board and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael E. Haskew
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760348170
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Appomattox written by Michael E. Haskew and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They endured hardship and deprivation as they fought for their home and ideals - relive the final days of the Army of Northern Virginia. Appomattox: The Last Days of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia encompasses the defense and evacuation of the Confederate capital of Richmond, the horrific combat in the trenches of Petersburg, General Robert E. Lee's withdrawal toward the Carolinas in his forlorn hope of a rendezvous with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee to carry on the fight, the relentless pursuit of Union forces, and the ultimate realization that further resistance against overwhelming odds was futile. The Army of Northern Virginia was the fighting soul of the Confederacy in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. From its inception, it fought against overwhelming odds. Union forces might have occupied territory, but as long as the Confederate army was active in the field, the rebellion was alive. Through four years of bitter conflict, the Army of Northern Virginia and its longtime commander, General Robert E. Lee, became the stuff of legend. By April 1865, its days were numbered. There are many stories of heroism and sacrifice, both Union and Confederate, during the Civil War, and Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia wrote their own epic chapter. Author Michael E. Haskew, a researcher, writer, and editor of many military history subjects for over twenty years, puts the hardship and deprivation suffered by this Army's soldiers while defending their home and ideals into proper perspective.
Author : Patrick A. Schroeder
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738567334
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Appomattox County written by Patrick A. Schroeder and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appomattox County, formed in 1845 and named after the nearby river, was originally best known for growing tobacco. However, that dramatically changed in 1865 when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House. In the 1930s, efforts began to commemorate Civil War events, and a national park was created. Each year, the county's 14,000 residents host the 125,000 visitors who flock to the area to learn more about the county's pivotal heritage. Boasting a unique history abundant with churches, notable citizens, and special events, this photograph collection shows the diverse and memorable history of Appomattox.
Author : Claude W. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Appomattox County 1845-1945, Virginia, Centennial written by Claude W. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Marvel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807860832
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A Place Called Appomattox written by William Marvel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an accident of fate brought the armies of Lee and Grant together there. It is that Appomattox--the typical small Confederate community--that William Marvel portrays in this deeply researched, compelling study. He tells the story of the Civil War from the perspective of those who inhabited one of the conflict's most famous sites. The village sprang into existence just as Texas became a state and reached its peak not long before Lee and Grant met there. The postwar decline of the village mirrored that of the rural South as a whole, and Appomattox served as the focal point for both Lost Cause myth-making and reconciliation reveries. Marvel draws on original documents, diaries, and letters composed as the war unfolded to produce a clear and credible portrait of everyday life in this town, as well as examining the galvanizing events of April 1865. He also scrutinizes Appomattox the national symbol, exposing and explaining some of the cherished myths surrounding the surrender there.
Author : United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Appomattox Court House written by United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, which ended the Civil War, and the battles fought in the days before it. Also contains essays on events leading up to the Civil War and the implications of Appomattox for the post-Civil War generation, and a tourist's guide to the park.
Author : Melvin Patrick Ely
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307773426
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Israel on the Appomattox written by Melvin Patrick Ely and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong. Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they formed, called Israel Hill, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex-slaves established farms, navigated the Appomattox River, and became entrepreneurs. Free blacks and whites did business with one another, sued each other, worked side by side for equal wages, joined forces to found a Baptist congregation, moved west together, and occasionally settled down as man and wife. Slavery cast its grim shadow, even over the lives of the free, yet on Israel Hill we discover a moving story of hardship and hope that defies our expectations of the Old South.
Author : Elizabeth R. Varon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199347921
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Appomattox written by Elizabeth R. Varon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Winner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs Symposium Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy Best Books of 2014, Civil War Monitor 6 Civil War Books to Read Now, Diane Rehm Show, NPR Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind -- it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of patriotism untainted by ideology. But as Elizabeth Varon reveals in this vividly narrated history, this rosy image conceals a seething debate over precisely what the surrender meant and what kind of nation would emerge from war. The combatants in that debate included the iconic Lee and Grant, but they also included a cast of characters previously overlooked, who brought their own understanding of the war's causes, consequences, and meaning. In Appomattox, Varon deftly captures the events swirling around that well remembered-but not well understood-moment when the Civil War ended. She expertly depicts the final battles in Virginia, when Grant's troops surrounded Lee's half-starved army, the meeting of the generals at the McLean House, and the shocked reaction as news of the surrender spread like an electric charge throughout the nation. But as Varon shows, the ink had hardly dried before both sides launched a bitter debate over the meaning of the war and the nation's future. For Grant, and for most in the North, the Union victory was one of right over wrong, a vindication of free society; for many African Americans, the surrender marked the dawn of freedom itself. Lee, in contrast, believed that the Union victory was one of might over right: the vast impersonal Northern war machine had worn down a valorous and unbowed South. Lee was committed to peace, but committed, too, to the restoration of the South's political power within the Union and the perpetuation of white supremacy. These two competing visions of the war's end paved the way not only for Southern resistance to reconstruction but also our ongoing debates on the Civil War, 150 years later. Did America's best days lie in the past or in the future? For Lee, it was the past, the era of the founding generation. For Grant, it was the future, represented by Northern moral and material progress. They held, in the end, two opposite views of the direction of the country-and of the meaning of the war that had changed that country forever.
Author : Burke Davis
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504034422
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book To Appomattox written by Burke Davis and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of the last nine days of the Civil War from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sherman’s March. After four long years of fighting, the Army of Northern Virginia was irreparably broken in April 1865, despite the military brilliance of its commander, Gen. Robert E. Lee. Acclaimed author Burke Davis recounts the last days leading up to Lee’s surrender to Union army commander Ulysses S. Grant in this riveting and uniquely revealing journey down the final road to Appomattox Court House. Beginning his remarkable saga during the decisive Siege of Petersburg, Davis chronicles the last days of the War between the States in intimate and unforgettable detail. Drawing on a wide array of voices—from frontline soldiers and battlefield commanders to presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis to regular citizens in the North and the South—To Appomattox vividly captures the human stories behind one of the most enthralling chapters in American history.
Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469663384
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Ends of War written by Caroline E. Janney and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight. Fearing a guerrilla war, Grant extended the generous Appomattox terms to every rebel who would surrender himself. Provost marshals fanned out across Virginia and beyond, seeking nearly 18,000 of Lee's men who had yet to surrender. But the shock of Lincoln's assassination led Northern authorities to see threats of new rebellion in every rail depot and harbor where Confederates gathered for transport, even among those already paroled. While Federal troops struggled to keep order and sustain a fragile peace, their newly surrendered adversaries seethed with anger and confusion at the sight of Union troops occupying their towns and former slaves celebrating freedom. In this dramatic new history of the weeks and months after Appomattox, Caroline E. Janney reveals that Lee's surrender was less an ending than the start of an interregnum marked by military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and continued outbursts of violence. Janney takes readers from the deliberations of government and military authorities to the ground-level experiences of common soldiers. Ultimately, what unfolds is the messy birth narrative of the Lost Cause, laying the groundwork for the defiant resilience of rebellion in the years that followed.
Author : Elizabeth R. Varon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199751714
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Appomattox written by Elizabeth R. Varon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the events surrounding Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House, focusing on the debate over the meaning of the Civil War that immediately followed its end.
Author : Appomattox County (Va.). Rural Areas Development Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Appomattox, Virginia written by Appomattox County (Va.). Rural Areas Development Committee and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha W. McCartney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692837184
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Eppington on the Appomattox written by Martha W. McCartney and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eppington on the Appomattox" is the story of the founding and evolution from the mid 1700s of Eppington Plantation of Chesterfield County, Virginia. It includes, as well, the associated family history of Eppington's founder, Francis Eppes VI, who married Thomas Jefferson's sister-in-law. The author, noted colonial Virginia researcher and historian Martha W. McCartney, describes the Native American and Tidewater Virginia background of the Eppington lands, identifies the Eppes family's English and colonial American roots, places Eppington's creation in the context of evolving colonial life along the James and Appomattox Rivers, and traces the economic and social forces influencing Eppington's development. McCartney also points out the role of slavery in Eppington's agricultural success; explores the fascinating relationship between the Eppes and Jefferson families, including many Eppington visits and extended stays of Thomas Jefferson and his daughters; reports on details of construction, modification, and expansion of the plantation house itself, which today still stands and is open to limited public visitation; and documents successive Eppington occupants and owners from the Eppes family to the present day, including the Thweatt, Cox, Hinds and Cherry families and public ownership by Chesterfield County government. The book also is amply illustrated and features an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
