Robert E. Lee: Confederate General
- ISBN-10
- 143810281X
- ISBN-13
- 9781438102818
- Series
- Robert E. Lee
- Category
- Generals
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Publisher
- Infobase Publishing
- Authors
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Patricia A. Grabowski, Jr.
Description
Robert E. Lee was proud to serve the United States as a soldier, but when the Civil War broke out he felt it was his duty to follow his southern roots.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Who Was Robert E. Lee?
By Who HQ, Bonnie BaderPresents a brief biography of the engineer, Confederate general, and college president, remembered as an excellent military leader and a great American.
-
The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee
By Robert Edward Lee, Clifford Dowdey, Louis H. ManarinSponsored by the Virginia Civil War Commission to commemorate the Civil War Centennial, this expert work of scholarship dramatizes Lee's life as only his own correspondence could.
-
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
By Ty Seidule" --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 E. Lee
By Philip Alexander BruceRobert E. Lee
-
Robert E. Lee
American soldier Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) was the general in command of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Time Inc. New Media presents a biographical sketch of Lee and...
-
The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
By John ReevesShortly after arriving in Richmond, Lee heard alarming news that he was about to be indicted for treason by a Norfolk grand jury. Seeking counsel, he immediately contacted his friend Reverdy Johnson, who offered Lee his legal ...
-
Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865
By Ethan S. RafuseThis book provides a comprehensive, yet concise and entertaining narrative of the battles and campaigns that highlighted this phase of the war and analyzes the battles and Lee's generalship in the context of the steady deterioration of the ...
-
How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War
By Edward H. BonekemperThis book challenges the general view that Robert E. Lee was a military genius who staved off inevitable Confederate defeat against insurmountable odds.
-
Robert E. Lee: A Life
By Allen C. GuelzoA Life Allen C. Guelzo ... 217 Slocum , Henry , 286 , 287 Smith , Edmund Kirby , 136 Smith , Elizabeth Oakes , 80 Smith , Francis H. , 199 , 382 Smith , Gustavus W. , 94 , 229 , 232 , 245 Smith , Isaac , 163 Smith , Jamil , 426 Smith ...
-
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
By Elizabeth Brown PryorJohn Hill Hewitt, Shadows on the Wall; or, Glimpses of the Past (Baltimore: Turnbull Brothers, 1877), pp. 90–93. 31. Calvert, “Childhood Days” AHA; Hewitt, Shadows on the Wall, pp. 90–93; and Lossing, “Arlington House,” pp. 436–37. 32.