An Honorable Defeat (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William C. Davis
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: February to May, 1865
- Setting: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
- Principal Characters: Jefferson Davis, Varina Davis, John C. Breckinridge, Judah P. Benjamin, Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Virginia, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Georgia, Civil War, North Carolina, South Carolina, Confederate States of America
- Locales: Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina
Contrary to the opinion of even those Americans with a a fair amount of familiarity with their county’s history, the Civil War did not end with Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant talking quietly across a parlor table in an Appomattox farm house on Sunday morning, April 9, 1865. Lee and Grant did meet on that morning and by four that afternoon the Army of Northern Virginia, the largest, most powerful, and famous of Confederate forces still in the field, had stacked its arms, furled its flags, and marched off into history. However, other Confederate troops remained ready for combat and...
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