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The Last Winter of the Union

The Last Winter of the Union

By Carmichael, Adrian

Published by epubli

English 2026
eBook

About this book

This book tracks the final winter of the American Civil War, when Sherman's march, Lee's surrender, and Lincoln's murder together turned a grinding conflict into a settling national trauma. It asks how a single season transformed military victory into a fraught inheritance for a reunited but bitterly scarred country, tracing the overlapping rhythms of campaign, capitulation, and catastrophe. The narrative centers on three intersecting processes: the logic of "total war" in Sherman's advance through Georgia and the Carolinas, the diplomatic‑like ritual of surrender at Appomattox and other Southern capitulations, and the shockwaves of the assassination at Ford's Theatre and its aftermath. Through telegraphs, diaries, and official records, the book shows how ordinary citizens, soldiers, and freed people parsed news of breakthroughs and murders in real time, building early myths of heroism, martyrdom, and resistance.

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The Last Winter of the Union is available as eBook at 8 online bookshops. Bookshops carrying it include Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Bookshop Uruguay.

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