Joseph Wheelan is the author of ten books about 19th- and 20th-century American history including Midnight in the Pacific (2017), Bloody Okinawa (2020) and Bitter Peleliu (2022). Previously, he was an editor and reporter for The Associated Press for 24 years. He lives in Cary, North Carolina.
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As the Confederacy steadily crumbled under the Union army's relentless hammering, dramatic developments in early 1865 brought the bloody war to a swift climax and denouement. Their Last Full Measure relates these thrilling events, which followed one anoth... SEE MORE