Ending the Civil War: The Bloody Year From Grant's Promotion to Lincoln's Assassination

Dramatically and authentically, using eyewitness accounts where possible, this book recounts the final 13 months of the Civil War, a year in which a new U.S. Army general in chief was appointed, a new course for the war was charted and a massive new campaign begun, the abolition of slavery was confirmed by the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, and the assassin of America's most revered president altered the course of history. It was the year that the United States won the final battle and, the year that the sundered nation was reunited. The book describes those events and the key figures in them.