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    The Road to Appomattox
    The Road to Appomattox
    The Road to Appomattox
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Road to Appomattox

    Written by Robert Hendrickson

    Narrated by Nelson Runger

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    Noted historian Robert Hendrickson has written more than 40 books and has earned critical acclaim for his meticulous historical research and highly readable style. In The Road to Appomattox, by weaving together passages from diaries, military reports, and newspapers, Hendrickson creates a vivid, firsthand account of the final year of the Civil War. Putting down their arms and flags, Lee's Confederate troops made a formal surrender at Appomattox on April 12, 1865. Leading up to that day, however, was a wide path of bloody battles that ultimately claimed the lives of one out of every 50 Americans. Bringing the Civil War to an end required extraordinary logic from Generals Grant, Sherman Sheridan, Lee, and others. Join Robert Hendrickson as he traces the military strategies and engagements that preceded that grey morning at Appomattox. As you walk beside both Northern and Southern fighting men and officers, their voices will ring in your ears.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 27, 2009
    ISBN9781440744655
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    • 4/5
      Covers all the bases, but something about the writing style didn't work for me. It starts out with brief bios of Grant and Lee and what led up to the last year of the U.S. Civil War. He covers the Overland and Atlanta Campaigns, pretty much discussing everything outside of the Trans-Mississippi. He follows Sherman to the sea and Grant into the lines outside of Petersburg. The book ends as the ANV breaks up after the surrender at Appomattox CH. I expected something about Davis' capture, the Battle of Bentonville, Lincoln's assassination, but Hendrickson works under the assumption that when Lee surrendered, the war ended. Nothing new here but not a bad book.