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Article: Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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By Nelson Lankford. (New York and other cities: Viking, 2002. Pp. viii, 312. $27.95, ISBN 0-670-03117-8.)
This is not the first book to tell the story of the fall of Richmond as the capital of the Confederate States of America. In addition to the accounts of eyewitnesses like Edward A. Pollard, T. C. DeLeon, and Sallie Brook Putnam, a disparate cadre of historians--Rembert W. Patrick, Michael B. Ballard, Virginius Dabney, William C. Davis, and others, including myself-have attempted to narrate the cataclysm that befell Richmond during those fateful days in April 1865. But Nelson Lankford has written the best book about the fall of Richmond. Richmond Burning is ...