title: Forgotten Confederates: An Anthology About Black Southerners, Vol. 14 (Journal of Confederate History Series)
author: Charles K. Barrow
description: Charles Kelly Barrow is a Georgia educator and historian.
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  To Appomattox
  Nine April Days, 1865
  Burke Davis
  
  To Mary Ellen Blackmon, Alan Manchester, Vera Largent, Algie Newlin and
  Hugh Lefler, teachers and historians
  
  CONTENTS
  I Prologue
  II Saturday, April 1
  III Sunday, April 2
  IV Monday, April 3
  V Tuesday, April 4
  VI Wednesday, April 5
  VII Thursday, April 6
  VIII Friday, April 7
  IX Saturday, April 8
  X Sunday, April 9
  Bibliography
  Image Gallery
  Index
  Acknowledgments
  About the Author
  
  I
  Prologue
  
  RICHMOND
  The winds of late March scuffed the dark James and tore tatters of smoke
  from factory chimneys. They howled on the barred windows of Libby and Belle
  Isle, where the prisoners were, and fell upon crowds in Capitol Square, where
  people stared at drilling Negro troops of the Confederacy—the first.
  In moments when the wind died a humid heat came from the river, and
  there was something more