The Tree of Appomattox: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Tree of Appomattox, credited to Joseph A. Altsheler, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. Altsheler. Read in English by Michael Packard; Natalie Paula; Mike Pelton; Daniel H; KHand; Patrick Martin; Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan "The Tree of Appomattox" concludes the series of connected romances dealing with the Civil War, begun in "The Guns of Bull Run," and continued successively through "The Guns of Shiloh," "The Scouts of Stonewall," "The Sword of Antietam," "The Star of Gettysburg," "The Rock of Chickamauga" and "The Shades of the Wilderness" to the present volume. It has been completed at the expense of vast labor, and the author has striven at all times to be correct, wherever facts are involved. So far, at least, no historic detail has been challenged by critic or reader. More than half a century has passed since the Civil War's close. Not many of the actors in it are left. It was one of the most tremendous upheavals in the life of any nation, and it was the greatest of all struggles, until the World War began, but scarcely any trace of partisan rancor or bitterness is left. So, it has become easier to write of it with a sense of fairness and detachment, and the lapse of time has made the perspective clear and sharp. However lacking he may be in other respects, the author perhaps had an advantage in being born, and having grown up in a border state, where sentiment was about equally divided concerning the Civil War. He was surrounded during his early youth by men who fought on one side or the other, and their stories of camp, march and battle were almost a part of the air he breathed. So he hopes that this circumstance has aided him to give a truthful color to the picture of the mighty combat, waged for four such long and terrible years. - Summary by Foreword

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Tree of Appomattox
• Author credits: Joseph A. Altsheler
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 8:46:33

Catalogue topics

• civil war
• end of the war

Track guide

1. 01 - Ch 01: The Apple Tree — 22:45
2. 02 - Ch 02: The Woman at the House, part 1 — 19:28
3. 03 - Ch 02: The Woman at the House, part 2 — 17:32
4. 04 - Ch 03: Over the Hills — 24:11
5. 05 - Ch 04: The Fight at the Crossways, part 1 — 17:48
6. 06 - Ch 04: The Fight at the Crossways, part 2 — 17:09
7. 07 - Ch 05: An Old Enemy — 22:33
8. 08 - Ch 06: The Fishermen — 27:09
9. 09 - Ch 07: Sheridan's Attack, part 1 — 21:56
10. 10 - Ch 07: Sheridan's Attack, part 2 — 18:53
11. 11 - Ch 08: The Messenger From Richmond — 26:47
12. 12 - Ch 09: At Grips With Early — 20:49
13. 13 - Ch 10: An Unbeaten Foe, part 1 — 12:29
14. 14 - Ch 10: An Unbeaten Foe, part 2 — 19:16
15. 15 - Ch 11: Cedar Creek — 28:05
16. 16 - Ch 12: In the Cove, part 1 — 24:11
17. 17 - Ch 12: In the Cove, part 2 — 16:21
18. 18 - Ch 13: Dick's Great Exploit — 27:18
19. 19 - Ch 14: The Mountain Sharpshooter — 32:43
20. 20 - Ch 15: Back With Grant — 31:52
21. 21 - Ch 16: The Closing Days — 22:44
22. 22 - Ch 17: Appomattox, part 1 — 18:54
23. 23 - Ch 17: Appomattox, part 2 — 15:15
24. 24 - Ch 18: The Final Reckoning — 20:26

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