Description: Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing villiage both before and after an accident of fate brought the armys of Lee and Grant together there.
Brief description: William Marvel's many books include Lincoln's Autocrat, Andersonville: The Last Depot, Lincoln's Darkest Year, and Tarnished Victory.
Review Quotes: "Marvel's work does nothing less than to bring the place and the people that are oft so two-dimensional on the pages of history sharply into three-dimensions. . . . Marvel's goal is quite clearly to focus on the people of Appomattox as humans with businesses, families, and lives, regardless of the moral implications of their own choices and the choices of their leaders. Appomattox's citizens are presented purely as they were: human."--Georgia Library Quarterly