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April 1865 : the month that saved America / Jay Winik.
LIBRA E477.61 .W56 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winik, Jay, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Richmond (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865.
- Richmond (Va.).
- Appomattox Campaign, 1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Assassination.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Peace.
- United States.
- History.
- Peace.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Perennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial, 2002.
- Summary:
- Examines the final days of the Civil War from the fall of Richmond to the official end of the war at Appomattox and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
- Contents:
- "A nation delayed"
- March 1865
- The dilemma
- April 1, 1965
- The fall
- The chase- and the decision
- The meeting
- The unraveling
- Will it all come undone?
- Surrender
- Late spring, 1865
- Reconciliation
- Epilogue: to make a nation.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-448) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0060930888
- 9780060930882
- OCLC:
- 49420698
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