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As the Confederacy continuously crumbled under the Union army's relentless hammering, dramatic developments in early on 1865 brought the bloody battle to a swift climax and denouement. Their Previous Full Strategy relates these thrilling events, which implemented one another like dropping dominoes - from Fort Fisher's capture to the burning up of South Carolina's capital to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and, ultimately, to Lee's surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination. Acclaimed historian Joseph Wheelan braids the disparate occasions into a compelling, fast-paced account of powerful armies; civil and armed forces leaders, both flawed and wonderful; and ordinary people, black and white, struggling to survive the war's wreckage in Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
