Books with title TO APPOMATTOX. NINE APRIL DAYS, 1865.

A gripping account of the last nine days of the Civil War from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sherman’s March. After four long years of fighting, the Army of Northern Virginia was irreparably broken in April 1865, despite the military brilliance of its commander, Gen. Robert E. Lee. Acclaimed author Burke Davis recounts the last days leading up to Lee’s surrender to Union army commander Ulysses S. Grant in this riveting and uniquely revealing journey down the final road to Appomattox Court House. Beginning his remarkable saga during the decisive Siege of Petersburg, Davis chronicles the last days of the War between the States in intimate and unforgettable detail. Drawing on a wide array of voices—from frontline soldiers and battlefield commanders to presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis to regular citizens in the North and the South—To Appomattox vividly captures the human stories behind one of the most enthralling chapters in American history.

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To Appomattox....by Burke Davis offers a fascinating glimpse of the heartbreaking turmoil and euphoria which captured Confederate and Union participants from the breakthrough at Petersburg to the surrender at Appomattox Court House. This history is written in the style of a novel relying extensively on diary entries of about twenty or so participants to tell the story of the defeat and collapse of the Army of Northern Virginia. The style of writing reflects Shelby Foote's great literary efforts in his Civil War trilogy much more than the detailed military descriptions found in works by Sears or Trudeau. I highly recommend this work for anyone interested in the final defeat of the forces of Robert E. Lee. The drama of the close of the Civil War's main theater is well told. Readers are in the trenches with private Rebels and Yankees, as well as riding along with officers as they struggle to control events with limited information in a very fluid environment. Although the author has a slight southern bias (I would say most reflected in his canonization of Lee and in showing Lincoln largely through his humorous stories or jokes), on the whole both sides are well represented and the superb strategic vision and masterfully calm control of Grant is amply demonstrated. It was interesting to note that in the early chapters (each chapter is one of the final nine days of the campaign), the subheading for the Confederates is listed "Confederates" while the Union section is titled "The Enemy." I chalked this up to it being a book written in 1959 by a southerner and it really doesn't cloud what is a fairly even handed look at this fascinating military history. Davis's effort reads like a "page-turner" novel as the ANV is pushed back from its entrenchments around Petersburg and Richmond, through flight and disintegration to its famous end at the McLean House.