History 210 Library Activities: Appomattox
Appomattox - Starting Places
Someday, this war's gonna end. That day is today. The question is, how will it end and what will happen once it's over? Check here to get the background information on the road to Appomattox and what followed.
Print Sources:
The Road to Appomattox - E 477.67 H46 1998
A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War - E 468.9 G68 1999
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War - E 661 R53 2007
Electronic Sources:
Appomattox - Ulysses S. Grant
Print Sources:
General Ulysses S. Grant: The Soldier and the Man - E 672 L86 2006
Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian - E 470 B677 2008
Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction - E672 .S6 1991
Electronic Sources:
- Grant, Ulysses S. Biography from Americans at War.
Appomattox - Robert E. Lee
Print Sources:
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee - E 467.1 L4 K75 2014
Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography - E 467 S62 1984
Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox - E 470.2 P69 1998
Electronic Sources:
- Lee, Robert E. Biography from Americans at War.
- Terms of Lee's Surrender From the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
Appomattox - Lincoln
Print Sources:
Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography - E 457 G46 2001
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief - E 457.2 M478 2008
Electronic Sources:
- Lincoln and the Civil War Final chapters on end of war.
Appomattox - Booth, Assassination, and the outcome
Print Sources:
Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer - E 457.5 S993 2007
"Right or wrong, God will judge me": The Writings of John Wilkes Booth - E 457.5 B667 1997
Electronic Sources:
- John Wilkes Booth Biography from Encyclopedia of World Biography.
- Lincoln in the National Memory From the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying.
Appomattox - Reconstruction
Print Sources:
Carpetbaggers, Cavalry and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction - E 668 M37 2007
The Civil War and Reconstruction - E 167 B78 2003
A Short History of Reconstruction - E 668 F662 1990
Reconstruction - E 668 F39 2003
Electronic Sources:
- Reconstruction From the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
- Amendments: Post-Civil War From the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
- Reconstruction-Era Civil Rights Acts From the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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