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Richmond Burning The Last Days of the Confederate Capital

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ISBN-10: 0142003107

ISBN-13: 9780142003107

Edition: N/A

Authors: Nelson Lankford, Nelson Lankford

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Nelson Lankford draws upon Civil War-era diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women, both black and white, who witnessed the tumultuous fall of Richmond. In April 1865 General Robert E. Lee realized that his army must retreat from the Confederate capital and that Jefferson Davis's government must flee. As the Southern soldiers moved out they set the city on fire, leaving a blazing ruin to greet the entering Union troops. The city's fall ushered in the birth of the modern United States. Lankford's exploration of this pivotal event is at once an authoritative work of history and a stunning piece of dramatic prose.
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.35" wide x 7.99" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Nelson Lankford edits the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Historical Society. He has written and edited several books.

Prologue: April 15, 1865
Citadel: Winter into Spring, 1865
Daily Bread: Late March
Waiting: Late March
A Day for Fools: Saturday, April 1
Sabbath Rest: Sunday, April 2, Morning
A Fugitive Government: Sunday, April 2, Afternoon
Flitting Shadows: Sunday, April 2, Evening
Mad Revelry of Confusion: Monday, April 3, Darkness to First Light
Cruel Cataclysm: Monday, April 3, Morning
Requiem for Buried Hopes: Monday, April 3, Morning
Burning: Monday, April 3, Morning to Afternoon
Let It Burn: Monday, April 3, Afternoon to Evening
Upon the Wings of Lightning: Tuesday, April 4
A Week in April: Tuesday, April 4, to Saturday, April 8
A Whirlwind Sweeping: Tuesday, April 4, to Saturday, April 8
Prayers for the President: Tuesday, April 4, to Sunday, April 9
Important Communications: Sunday, April 9, to Friday, April 14
The Order of the Day: Saturday, April 15, and After
The Sorry Silence of a Conquered People: April into May
Epilogue: Blunt and Withered Laurels
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index