The Last Battle of the Civil War
United States versus Lee, 1861-1883
Seventeen years after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, one final, dramatic confrontation occurred between the Lee family and the United States government. In The Last Battle of the Civil War, Anthony J. Gaughan recounts the fascinating saga of United States v. Lee, known to history as the Arlington Case.Prior to the Civil War, Mary Lee, Robert E. Lee's wife, owned the estate that Arlington National Cemetery rests on today. After the attack on Fort Sumter, however, the Union army seized the Lees' Arlington home and converted it into a national cemetery as well as a refugee camp for runaway slaves.In 1877 George Washington Custis Lee, R…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-3929-5
- EAN: 9780807139295
- Produktnummer: 27859668
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'751 KB
- Abbildungen: 9 halftones, 3 maps
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Anthony J. Gaughan
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