Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital
by Nelson Lankford
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0142003107
- ISBN 13
- 9780142003107
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Tight, clean, unmarked copy; a few pages show small corner creases. Firm binding.
Synopsis
Nelson Lankford draws upon Civil War-era diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women, both black and white, who witnessed the tumultuous fall of Richmond. In April 1865 General Robert E. Lee realized that his army must retreat from the Confederate capital and that Jefferson Davis's government must flee. As the Southern soldiers moved out they set the city on fire, leaving a blazing ruin to greet the entering Union troops. The city's fall ushered in the birth of the modern United States. Lankford's exploration of this pivotal event is at once an authoritative work of history and a stunning piece of dramatic prose.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BX6-MAJ-2.20
- Title
- Richmond Burning
- Author
- Nelson Lankford
- Format/Binding
- Glued binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0142003107
- ISBN 13
- 9780142003107
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 312
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Civil War;