Название: Raising the White Flag : How Surrender Defined the American Civil War
Автор: David Silkenat
Издательство: University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 1469649721
Год: 2919
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 369
Размер: 5,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most famously at Appomattox Courthouse. But in the intervening four years, both Union and Confederate forces surrendered en masse on scores of other occasions.