{"title":"Nelson Lankford","description":"Nelson Lankford edits The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Historical Society. A resident of Richmond, he is the co-editor of Eye of the Storm and Images from the Storm and author of The Last American Aristocrat.","products":[{"product_id":"richmond-burning-the-last-days-of-the-confederate-capital-paperback","title":"Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eNelson Lankford draws upon Civil War-era diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women, both black and white, who witnessed the tumultuous fall of Richmond. In April 1865 General Robert E. Lee realized that his army must retreat from the Confederate capital and that Jefferson Davis's government must flee. As the Southern soldiers moved out they set the city on fire, leaving a blazing ruin to greet the entering Union troops. The city's fall ushered in the birth of the modern United States. Lankford's exploration of this pivotal event is at once an authoritative work of history and a stunning piece of dramatic prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368233435359,"sku":"9780142003107","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/evjS0nH0yM9780142003107.webp?v=1789125074"},{"product_id":"cry-havoc-the-crooked-road-to-civil-war-1861-paperback","title":"Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"compact, engrossing narrative\"* that vividly reimagines the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford's engaging examination of the causes of the Civil War from other books on the subject is its willingness to consider the alternative possibilities to history. \u003ci\u003eCry Havoc!\u003c\/i\u003e recounts in riveting detail the small quirks of timing, character, and place that influenced the huge trajectory of events during eight critical weeks from Lincoln's inauguration through the explosion at Fort Sumter and the embattled president's response to it. It addresses the what-ifs, the might-have-beens, and the individual personalities that played into circumstances-a chain of indecisions and miscalculations, influenced by swollen vanity and wishful thinking-that gave shape to the dreadful conflict to come.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368729215199,"sku":"9780143112792","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5VqkeihS9b9780143112792.webp?v=1789132301"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nelson-lankford.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}