Appomattox

A revisionist narrative of Appomattox, the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union, published on the 150th anniversary of the event that ended the Civil War.

Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. A noted Civil War historian, she is the author of Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859; We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia; and Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, which was named one of the "Five Best" books on the "Civil War away from the battlefield" by the Wall Street Journal.

- Prologue
- Part One: Battlefront
- Ch 1 No Escape
- Ch 2 Councils of War
- Ch 3 The Surrender Conference
- Ch 4 Rank-and-File
- Part Two: Homefront
- Ch 5: Tidings of Peace
- Ch 6: Victory and Mourning
- Ch 7: Defeat and Liberation
- Part Three: Aftermath
- Ch 8: The Trials of Robert E. Lee
- Ch 9: The Education of U.S. Grant
- Epilogue: The Apple Tree
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index