Grant and Lee at Appomattox: A Primary Source History of the End of the Civil War

This enlightening book provides an in-depth, day-to-day study of the events and key figures behind the last campaigns of the Civil War, as it depicts Robert E. Lee's surrender to the Union forces of Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. This gripping historical narrative of the war's final, bloody days is told mainly through contemporary primary sources, such as government documents, newspaper articles, correspondence, paintings, photographs, and soldiers' artifacts.