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Published on: 2015-04-15
Released on: 2015-04-15
Original language: English

Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for NonfictionWinner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs SymposiumWinner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round TableFinalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the ConfederacyBest Books of 2014, Civil War Monitor6 Civil War Books to Read Now, Diane Rehm Show, NPRLee'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. Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the ... ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War ... for practical purposes ended the Civil War. In her new book "Appomattox: Victory ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the ... Buy Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War on FREE ... Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War does just that... A ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War ... Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War by Elizabeth R. Varon (review) Author: Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. Elizabeth R. Varon. Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the ... ... States History Civil War & Reconstruction US History Appomattox ... Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the ... anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the ... ... Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War by ... and Freedom At The End Of The Civil War ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom At The End ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the ... Start by marking Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War as Want to ... Elizabeth Varon's Appomattox is the end of my Civil War ... Appomattox Victory Defeat And Freedom At The End Of The ... Browse and Read Appomattox Victory Defeat And Freedom At The End Of The Civil War Appomattox Victory Defeat And ... appomattox victory defeat and freedom at the end ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End of the ... Appomattox: Victory Defeat and Freedom at the End ... and Freedom at the End of the Civil War ... Grants generosity at Appomattox is well known and Lee ...
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