April 1865: The Month That Saved America (Unabridged) [Portable Professor]

In April 1865, after nearly five years of bitter civil war, Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. Soon after, Richmond lay in ruins, Lincoln had been assassinated, and the terrible war, which had cost some 600,000 American lives, was not yet over. Many of the Confederate commanders still in the field that fateful April were prepared to fight a guerrilla war that might have prolonged the conflict indefinitely. Award-winning author Jay Winik here brings the tension of that pivotal month to life in a riveting series of lectures about the final chapter of the U.S. Civil War.