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An honorable defeat
the last days of the Confederate government
By Davis, William Morris
- ISBN
- 978-0-15100-564-2
- Publisher
- New York : Harcourt, c2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2001
Davis's work opens during the last four months of the Civil War, which saw Lee's retreat from Petersburg, his stinging defeat at Sayler's Creek, his surrender at Appomattox, the fall of Richmond, and Lincoln's assassination. Davis (history, Virginia Tech Univ.; Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour) follows the contentious relationship of two men, rivals through circumstance but wedded by politics, who both collaborated and feuded during this period to advance ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
