Books written by Charles Royster
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Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution
42 Henry Lee to Ann Hill Carter Lee , May 6 , 1817 , Lee Family Papers , Virginia Historical Society . 43 Henry Lee to Charles Carter Lee , Sept. 30 , 1816 , R. E. Lee , “ Life of Henry Lee , ” Memoirs of the War ( 1869 ed . ) , 60 .
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Light-Horse Harry Lee
47 Henry Lee to Charles Carter Lee, Feb. 9, 1817, R. E. Lee, “Life of Henry Lee,” Memoirs of the War (1869 ed.), 63. 48 Henry Lee to Charles Carter Lee, Nov. 20 and May 5, 1517, ibid., 74, 69. 49 Henry Lee to Nicholas Fish, [Nov.] ...
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The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
... ibid.; Peter J. Shand to Mrs. Howard Kennedy, March 9, 1868, ibid.; Harriott H. Ravenel, “Burning of Columbia, ... 12, 15, March 2, 3, 1865, William Stokes Papers, ibid.; Robert Wallace Shand, “Incidents in the Life of a Private ...
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The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
Coodspeedfis Catalogue 533, Item 292; W. T. Sherman to George H. Thomas, March 18, 1864, CW 407, Hen E. Huntington Library, ... Johnston on what he would have done] Memoirs of Samuel Wra g Ferguson, 142, Samuel Wragg Ferguson Papers, ...
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A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war.
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The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this...
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The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times
In this absorbing narrative Charles Royster traces the rise and fall of the eighteenth-century transatlantic culture that was built on the insatiable demand in Europe for Virginia tobacco and the...