After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory P. Downs

After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War

Gregory P. Downs

352 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. As Gregory Downs reveals i...

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