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Appomattox - Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Appomattox - Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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General Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
to General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac might look serene
in the amber-tinted popular images of two gentlemen sharing cigars,
but that image conceals seething debate over precisely what the
surrender meant and what kind of United States would emerge from
war. The combatants in that debate included the iconic Lee and
Grant, but they also included a cast of characters previously
overlooked, who brought their own understanding of the war's
causes, consequences, and meaning. Whereas April 1865 has been
commonly viewed as a clear breaking point, Elizabeth Varon's
Appomattox promises to connect the war to the immediate postwar in
ways that have the potential to tell us far more than we currently
know about how the creative potential generated by the destruction
of war went unfulfilled in the decades that followed. Painting a
portrait of this event between the triumphalist version of 1865 as
a moment of strength and healing and a more persuasive but still
incomplete portrait of the postwar painted by David Blight in Race
and Reunion, Varon's work seeks to examine the surrender at
Appomattox with an eye toward (a) narrating the events of April
1865, (b) exploring the immediate reactions, North and South, to
the surrender, (c) exploring the political uses of the surrender
during Reconstruction, and (d) challenging the popular, and
comforting, perception that Appomattox inaugurated an easy end to a
tragic war by beginning a process of reunion that reminded
Americans that they were, after all, one people who shared far more
similarities than differences. Varon will bring African American
voices and attitudes into a story typically limited to white
actors.
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