The Falling Flag

"The Falling Flag-Evacuation of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at Appomattox" is a classic American Civil War history text by Edward M. Boykin. The writer only attempts to give some account of what occurred within his own observation of the American Civil War; he would have esteemed it a privilege to enter into all the detail that lights up the last desperate struggle, made by that glorious remnant of the Army of Northern Virginia, with its skeleton battalions from every Southern State; illustrating their own fame and that of their noble leader, mile by mile, on that weary march from Richmond to Appomattox.