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Title: Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War
Subtitle: Great Campaigns of the Civil War
Author: Perry D. Jamieson
Narrator: Steve Rausch
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-04-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:
When General Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to continue fighting. Though Union successes had nearly extinguished the Confederacy's hope for an outright victory, the South still believed it could force the Union to grant a negotiated peace that would salvage some of its war aims. As evidence of the Confederacy's determination, two major Union campaigns, along with a number of smaller engagements, were required to quell the continued organized Confederate military resistance.
In Spring 1865, Perry D. Jamieson juxtaposes for the first time the major campaign against Lee that ended at Appomattox and General William T. Sherman's march north through the Carolinas, which culminated in General Joseph E. Johnston's surrender at Bennett Place. Jamieson also addresses the efforts required to put down armed resistance in the Deep South and the Trans-Mississippi. As both sides fought for political goals following Lee's surrender, these campaigns had significant consequences for the political-military context that shaped the end of the war, as well as Reconstruction.
"A valuable addition to Civil War historiography." - Military Review
"Readers looking for an authoritative single volume on the campaigns that ended the Civil War will want to consider Spring 1865." - Civil War Book Review
"This book is highly recommended to any student of the Civil War." - Army History

Members Reviews:
Well written
There seems to have been a flood of books and videos on the Civil War all related to the 150th anniversary. I probably bought most of those books and watched the videos.
This is a well written book that will please the novice and the veteran Civil War aficionado.
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... be very interested in the details of battle to like this book
You do have to be very interested in the details of battle to like this book. Generally, I admit that I am not but this book went into the details of the military campaigns at the very end of the war and helps one understand just how the situation was at that time. It also did a good job of covering the political and social issues, although not in great detail. The author did not express any sentimental thoughts as each subject is treated very academically. There is no eloquent poetry regarding Lincoln's assassination , for example. The author simply states that he was murdered and the North and some of the South was angry. But you can read the human emotion stories in plenty of other works so it was not something I missed. The main idea I took from this book was that the Confederacy was definitely on its last leg in early 1865 and the author does a very good job of showing us how it was on that last leg, why it was where it was, why it was that at that point the Union was able to break through. It also shows just what a horror war can be in a very matter of fact way.