Their Last Full Measure

In this fast-paced narrative,historian Joseph Wheelan relates the dramatic events of early 1865from the battles ending the Petersburg siege and forcing Lee’s surrender at Appomattox to the destruction of South Carolina’s capitalthe assassination of Lincolnand the intensive manhunt for his killer. Meticulously researchedTheir Last Full Measure braids the rapidly unfolding events into a compelling account that includes powerful armies; leaders civil and militaryflawed and splendid; and ordinary peopleblack and whitestruggling to survive in the war’s wreckage.