After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War

by Gregory P. Downs

Book Overview

"Original and revelatory."
--David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass

Avery O. Craven Award Finalist
A Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the Year

In April 1865, Robert E. Lee wrote to Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. The distinction proved prophetic.

After Appomattox...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674241622
• ISBN13: 9780674241626
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.2"