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Jefferson Davis's Flight from Richmond

Jefferson Davis's Flight from Richmond

The Calm Morning, Lee's Telegrams, the Evacuation, the Train, the Passengers, the Trip, the Arrival in Danville and the Historians' Frauds

by John Stewart
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/01/2015

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April 2, 1865 is perhaps the most famous night in American history. It was certainly the most action-packed. In the space of a few hours the Confederate capital was evacuated and burned, the government fled, slavery was finished in North America, Union forces entered Richmond, and the Civil War basically came to an end. There were no official documents to tell this story because the Confederate government was on the run. First, there were the newspapers, mostly confused. Then the history books, based on those papers. Being in a history book, the story becomes set in stone. But things always come to light to change history, in this case "eyewitnesses". If the story they tell is a good one, it will become history. By far the most important eyewitness was Navy Secretary Mallory, whose account changed everything. Most of what we know today comes from Mallory, but Mallory, and all the other eyewitnesses, are not what they seem. The history of April 2, 1865 is not how it has come down to us - not at all.
ISBN:
9780786478538
9780786478538
Category:
American Civil War
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-01-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
McFarland & Co Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
316
Dimensions (mm):
254x178x25mm
Weight:
0.56kg

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