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"In this masterful work, Caroline E. Janney begins with a deceptively simple question: how did the Army of Northern Virginia disband? Janney slows down the pace of the events after Appomattox to reveal it less as a decisive end and more as the commencement of a chaotic interregnum marked by profound military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and continued outbursts of violence. Janney blends analysis of large-scale political, legal, and military considerations with intimate narratives of individual soldiers considering their options and pursuing a wide range of decisions"--

Grant finally takes command : how the race to Appomattox was won / William W. Bergen -- We can keep all the Yankees back that they can send : morale among Hood's Texas Brigade's soldiers and their families, 1864-1865 / Susannah J. Ural -- A whole lot of blame to go around : the Confederate collapse at Five Forks / Peter S. Carmichael -- Lucky inspiration : Philip Sheridan's uncertain road to triumph with the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac / Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh -- Lee, Breckinridge, and Campbell : the Confederate peacemakers of 1865 / William C. Davis -- Many valuable records and documents were lost to history : the destruction of Confederate military records during the Appomattox Campaign / Keith Bohannon -- We were not paroled : the surrenders of Lee's men beyond Appomattox Court House / Caroline E. Janney -- Sheridan's personal memoirs and the Appomattox Campaign / Stephen Cushman -- The last hour of the slaveholders' rebellion : African American discourse on Lee's surrender -- Elizabeth R. Varon

Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Ja

"Buying and Selling the Civil War is a collection of original essays about the marketing and selling of Civil War memory during the postwar economic boom known as the "Gilded Age." The editors, Marten and Janney, both renowned scholars for their studies of the Civil War, provide a new framework for examining the intersections of material culture, consumerism, and contested memory. Each essay offers a case study of a product, experience, or idea related to how the Civil War is remembered and memorialized. Taken together, these essays trace the ways the buying and selling of the Civil War shaped Americans' thinking about the conflict. As one reviewer points out, this volume makes an "important contribution to scholarship on Civil War memory" and extends our understanding of subjects as varied as "print culture, visual culture, popular culture, finance, the history of education, the history of the book, and the history of capitalism in this period." The volume's contributors include Crompton B. Burton, Kevin R. Caprice, Shae Cox, Jonathan S. Jones, David K. Thompson, Amanda Brickell Bellows, Natalie Sweet, Jonathan W. White, Anna Gibson Holloway, Barbara A. Gannon, Edward John Harcourt, Margaret Fairgrieve Milanick, Paul Ringel, and John Neff"--