The
Appomattox Campaign : March 29 - April 9, 1865 Chris Calkins |
Historian Chris Calkins does a marvelous job re-creating the
last days of the war in this vivid and well-written work. Mr. Calkins, who was a historian at Appomattox and now is the Park Historian at Petersburg National Battlefield, uses his years of experience and knowledge of the last campaign of the War to construct an excellent narrative that explains the final fight for Petersburg and Grant's pursuit of Lee to Appomattox. Excellent maps and superb sidebars on general officers on both sides. I wish he went more in depth on the battles, though. The "bible" for the last week of the War! |