The Civil War is often said to have ended at Appomattox. However, the fighting did not truly stop there.

In April 1865, nearly ninety thousand Confederate soldiers remained under arms across the Carolinas and the Deep South. Their fate and that of the nation would be decided not on a battlefield or in a capital city, but in a modest farmhouse along a North Carolina road.

Set against the exhaustion of soldiers, the uncertainty of civilians, and a country poised uneasily between war and peace, this book reveals how the Civil War truly ended; not with spectacle, but with restraint.

Because wars do not always end where we remember them. They end where the fighting finally stops.