‘Judgement at Appomattox’ Book Review By Ron Fortier
JUDGMENT AT APPOMATTOX
By Ralph Peters
Forge Paperback
439 pgs
Author Peters, a military veteran and Civil War historian, offers up a gripping narrative detailing the last few weeks of that bloody conflict. Telling the story in novel form, he focuses not only on the battles and skirmishes that spanned Virginia from one end to the other, but also on the personal trials and ordeals of the men themselves. Aware that his army of Northern Virginia is being slowly destroyed with each new bloody encounter, Robert E. Lee is desperate to find an escape route from the relentless, bulldog pursuit of the…
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