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To the bitter end
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ISBN: 1611212537 9781611212532 9781611212525 Year: 2015 Publisher: El Dorado Hills, California

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Across the Confederacy, determination remained high through the winter of 1864 into the new year. Yet ominous signs were everywhere. The peace conference had failed. Large areas were overrun, the armies could not stop Union advances, the economy was in shambles, and industry and infrastructure were crumbling-the Confederacy could not make, move, or maintain anything. No one knew what the future held, but uncertainty.Civilians and soldiers, generals and governors, resolved to fight to the bitter end.Myths and misconceptions abound about those last days of the Confederacy. There would be no sing


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No turning back
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ISBN: 1611211948 9781611211948 9781611211931 161121193X Year: 2014 Publisher: El Dorado Hills, California

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""[T]here will be no turning back,"" said Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. It was May, 1864. The Civil War had dragged into its fourth spring. It was time to end things, Grant resolved, once and for all.With the Union Army of the Potomac as his sledge, Grant crossed the Rapidan River, intending to draw the Army of Northern Virginia into one final battle. Short of that, he planned ""to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him . . . .""Almost immediately, though, Robert E. Lee's Confede

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