Book 2008
A Place Called Appomattox
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- 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.