{"product_id":"lees-last-retreat-the-flight-to-appomattox-9780807857038","title":"Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox","description":"Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. William Marvel offers the first history of the Appomattox campaign written primarily from contemporary source material, with a skeptical eye toward memoirs published well after the events they purport to describe. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarvel shows that during the final week of the war in Virginia, Lee's troops were more numerous yet far less faithful to their cause than has been suggested. He also proves accounts of the congenial intermingling of the armies at Appomattox to be shamelessly overblown and the renowned exchange of salutes to be apocryphal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarvel, William:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - William Marvel's many books include \u003ci\u003eA Place Called Appomattox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAndersonville: The Last Depot\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by The University of North Carolina Press. He lives in South Conway, New Hampshire.","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413216891154,"sku":"9780807857038","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3308c61f-dd19-42fd-9073-2f91d0f69f87.jpg?v=1729349502","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lees-last-retreat-the-flight-to-appomattox-9780807857038","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}