Traces the life, career, and achievements of the general who commanded the Confederate army during the Civil War.
Emory M. Thomas ... 50, 248 Mexican War, 119, 124 Peninsula Campaign, 220-21, 222, 224-25 western command, 288, 306, 313, 343 at West Point, 50 wounding of, 225 Johnston, Samuel R., 297 Johnston, William Preston, 405-6 Jones, D. R., ...
Robert E. Lee
This book takes an in-depth look at this southern gentleman as a strategist and a tactician, covering all of his most important victories and defeats.
General Robert E. Lee was the most celebrated general in the American Civil War. His leadership led the Confederate States of America close to victory against the Union. This interesting...
... George Foster Pierce in Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox - Genovese , " The Social Thought of Antebellum Southern Theologians , " in Wilfred B. Moore , Jr. , and Joseph F. Tripp , eds . , Looking South : Chapters in the Study of ...
Looking at this evidence in a critical way, Nolan concludes that there is little truth to the dogmas traditionally set forth about Lee and the war.
Many of the images in this book are being published for the first time.
" --Ron Chernow In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this ...
Robert Lee's army decisively defeated Pope at the Second Battle of Manassas . Lee's men cheered as he rode along the lines , a dashing figure sitting tall on Traveller . Young Rob Lee later recalled an encounter with his father at ...
But these movements were disregarded by Lee. On the same day Ewell's corps moved rapidly toward Chester Gap, passed through that defile in the mountain, pushed on by way of Front Royal, and reached Winchester on the evening of the 13th, ...