To Appomattox Nine April Days Author:Burke Davis An informal history of the Appomattox campaign that is woven from over 200 eyewitness accounts. Bolstered by documents, the stories of men and women, chiefly from journals, reports and memoirs, are paramount. This is less a military history than a tale of human beings under stress. — This is the story of those nine days. From Richmond and Petersb... more »urg, to Appomattox and Lee's surrender.« less