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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824029103321

Autore

Jamieson Perry D.

Titolo

Spring 1865 : the closing campaigns of the Civil War / / Perry D. Jamieson ; maps by Erin Greb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8032-7470-X

0-8032-2581-4

0-8032-7472-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (564 p.)

Collana

Great Campaigns of the Civil War

Disciplina

973.7/31

Soggetti

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Peace

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Terrible times of shipwreck -- Fort Fisher and Wilmington -- In the Carolinas -- Bentonville -- Late winter at Petersburg -- The fall of Petersburg -- To Sailor's Creek -- Spring morning -- A scrap of paper -- Scattered embers.

Sommario/riassunto

When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to continue fighting. Though Union successes had nearly extinguished the Confederacy's hope for an outright victory, the South still believed it could force the Union to grant a negotiated peace that would salvage some of its war aims. As evidence of the Confederacy's determination, two major Union campaigns, along with a number of smaller engag