Richmond Burning. The Last Days Of The Confederate Capital

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 312 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 Daviss 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 citys fall ushered in the birth of the modern United States. Lankfords exploration of this pivotal event is at once an authoritative work of history and a stunning piece of dramatic prose.

ISBN: 9780142003107