and the army's final defeat and surrender at Appomattox. Power's portrait of the army as it confidently awaited the spring campaign of 1864 certainly casts doubt on the notion that at the time ...

Four of the 29 surviving soldiers of the Confederate Army tramped ... chortled in high glee over a new explanation for the surrender at Appomattox. The story: that General Robert E.

Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $30.00. ISBN: 1469663376 The Army of Northern Virginia Goes Home Caroline E. Janney evokes the human drama of Appomattox and the memory of Confederate soldiers at ...

These coins both endangered and saved the life of a soldier in World War One. Shot after the noise of them "clinging together in his breast pocket... gave his position away... the bullet that ...