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  • "No One Wants to be the Last to Die"

    The Battles of Appomattox, April 8-9, 1865

    by Chris Calkins ...
    This groundbreaking study chronicles the final battles in Virginia at Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House in April 1865. Author Chris Calkins, who recently retired as the Site Manager at Sailor’s Creek Battlefield State Park, is widely recognized as the war’s foremost authority on the battles of Appomattox and the Appomattox Campaign. “No One Wants to Be the Last to Die” leads readers ... Read more

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  • The Final Bivouac

    The Confederate Surrender Parade at Appomattox and the Disbanding of the Virginia Armies, April 10–May 20, 1865

    by Chris Calkins ...
    Explores the immediate aftermath of Lee’s surrender, detailing the Confederate disbandment, Union occupation, and reactions to Lincoln’s assassination.What actually happened during the first six weeks of new-found peace once General Lee surrendered the remnants of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Grant? What were the initial reactions of the soldiers and Virginia citizens to the ... Read more

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  • To the Gates of Richmond

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  • The Last Citadel

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    The revised and updated groundbreaking study of the most extensive military operation of the Civil War—from the author of Bloody Roads South.The Petersburg campaign began on June 9, 1864, and ended on April 3, 1865, when Federal troops at last entered the city. It was the longest and most costly siege ever to take place on North American soil, yet it has been overshadowed by other actions that ... Read more

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  • The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864

    by Gordon C. Rhea, Esq. ...
    Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. In an exciting narrative, Gordon C. Rhea provides the consummate recounting of that conflict of May 5 and 6, 1864, which ended with high ... Read more

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  • The Second Battle of Winchester

    The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg

    by Eric J. Wittenberg, Scott L. Mingus ...
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  • From Winchester to Cedar Creek

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    by Jeffry D. Wert ...
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  • General Lee's Immortals

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  • The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7–12, 1864

    by Gordon C. Rhea, Esq. ...
    The second volume in Gordon C. Rhea's peerless five-book series on the Civil War's 1864 Overland Campaign abounds with Rhea's signature detail, innovative analysis, and riveting prose. Here Rhea examines the maneuvers and battles from May 7, 1864, when Grant left the Wilderness, through May 12, when his attempt to break Lee's line by frontal assault reached a chilling climax at what is now called ... Read more

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  • “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”

    The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg - Volume 1: June 3–21, 1863

    by Scott L. Mingus, Eric J. Wittenberg ...
    Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg, the authors of more than forty Civil War books, have once again teamed up to present a history of the opening moves of the Gettysburg Campaign in the two-volume study “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg. This compelling study is one of the first to integrate the military, ... Read more

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  • On to Petersburg

    Grant and Lee, June 4–15, 1864

    by Gordon C. Rhea, Esq. ...
    With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864. Having previously covered the campaign in his magisterial volumes on The Battle of the Wilderness, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow ... Read more

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