This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (744 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807857017 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bradley is to be commended for a well-written and impressively researched monograph.""Civil War History""Belongs on the shelf of every Civil War buff.""Blue & Gray" . Serious scholars of the Civil War will find "This Astounding Close" a valuable study.""On Point""A well-documented and careful analysis. "Bradley's book is readable, interesting, and informative.""Journal of American History""A superb study that incorporates the best of new military history.""Civil War Book Review""A remarkable book of painstaking research
And he advances a fresh interpretation of Sherman's and Johnston's roles in the final negotiations for the surrender.. Sherman. In this first full-length examination of the end of the war in North Carolina, Mark Bradley traces the campaign leading up to Bennett Place.Alternating between Union and Confederate points of view and drawing on his readings of primary sources, including numerous eyewitness accounts and the final muster rolls of the Army of Tennessee, Bradley depicts the action as it was experienced by the troops and the civilians in their path. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Union General William T. The most notable of these occurred at Bennett Place, near Durham, North Carolina, when Confederate General Joseph E. He offers
"Helps put Appomatox into proper perspective" according to Blackville. As a companion to Bradley's earlier work on the Bentonville battle, 'Last Stand in the Carolinas', 'This Astounding Close' creates an extremely satisfying conclusion. But, as a stand alone work, 'This Astounding Close' is a tremendous asset in its own right.Most of us grew up believing that the Civil War ended the moment Robert E. Lee surrendered to U.S. Grant at Appomatox Cou. Great Companion to "Last Stand in the Carolinas!" Mark Bradley has written an excellent companion book to his "Last Stand in the Carolinas," which has currently gone out of print. In this volume, Mr. Bradley picks up where he left off, following Johnston and Sherman from Bentonville to the surrender of the Army of Tennessee at Durham, North Carolina. Bradley's writing is, as in his other book, great! But missing from "This As. Michael Taylor said A Fascinating Read on the Last Days of the Civil War in North Carolina!. Mark Bradley has written a most excellent account of the last days of the Civil War in North Carolina between Joseph Johnston and William Sherman. Being a North Carolina native and having visited and traveled through many of the places in the book, I was particularly interested.The book is not so much a detailed account of the last battles in North Carolina (Bentonville, Avera