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  Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital
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By Nelson Lankford
Through the winter and early spring of 1865, while Union armies ranged at will across the South, Richmond still glittered with the hard defiance of a city long at war. But this last flicker of resolve only made the city's fall all the more devastating. On the night of April 2, faced with the inevitability of northern victory, Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled, leaving Richmond to its fate—fire, capture, and the end of hope for a southern nation. In this enthralling, carefully researched book, Nelson Lankford draws on a wealth of sources to create a narrative of novelistic immediacy. Here are unforgettable scenes of Abraham Lincoln's sailing up the James River to the Confederate White House and of Robert E. Lee's returning from Appomattox to survey the still-smoldering ruins. Here too are vivid eyewitness accounts of the destruction of Richmond's commercial core and of the hardships that its citizens, both black and white, suffered in the aftermath of the war. Richmond Burning is at once a superb work of history and a stunning example of dramatic prose.
Nelson D. Lankford is author of the new book, Cry Havoc! The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861, and coeditor of Eye of the Storm and Images from the Storm, the bestselling books on Union mapmaker and artist, Robert Knox Sneden. Lankford is also director of publications and scholarship at the Virginia Historical Society.
320 pages, hardcover, ISBN: 0670031178, Viking Press, 2002
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