After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War

by Gregory P. Downs

Book Overview

On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. As Gregory Downs reveals in this gripping history of post-Civil War America, Grant's distinction proved prophetic, for peace would elude the South for years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

After Appomattox argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674743989
• ISBN13: 9780674743984
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"