Cover of A Place Called Appomattox

Book 2008

A Place Called Appomattox

2 readers

Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Language
English
Published
2008
  • Civil war
  • History
  • USA
  • Military - United States
  • United States - 19th Century
  • United States - Civil War

John Raine might have been forgiven a touch of melancholy on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, for in the spring of 1845 the half-century mark served as an even greater reminder of man's mortality than it would in a more salubrious time.