Lee
Published on 30. June 2008
656 pages
978-1-4391-0749-2 (ISBN)
Description
Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize?winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. This reissue chronicles all the major aspects and highlights of the general's military career, from his stunning accomplishments in the Mexican War to the humbling surrender at Appomattox.
More than just a military leader, Lee embodied all the conflicts of his time. The son of a Revolutionary War hero and related by marriage to George Washington, he was the product of young America's elite. When Abraham Lincoln offered him command of the United States Army, however, he choose to lead the confederate ranks, convinced that his first loyalty lay with his native Virginia. Although a member of the planter class, he felt that slavery was ?a moral and political evil.? Aloof and somber, he nevertheless continually inspired his men by his deep concern for their personal welfare.
Freeman's biography is the full portrait of a great American?a distinguished, scholarly, yet eminently readable classic that has linked Freeman to Lee as irrevocably as Boswell to Dr. Johnson.
More than just a military leader, Lee embodied all the conflicts of his time. The son of a Revolutionary War hero and related by marriage to George Washington, he was the product of young America's elite. When Abraham Lincoln offered him command of the United States Army, however, he choose to lead the confederate ranks, convinced that his first loyalty lay with his native Virginia. Although a member of the planter class, he felt that slavery was ?a moral and political evil.? Aloof and somber, he nevertheless continually inspired his men by his deep concern for their personal welfare.
Freeman's biography is the full portrait of a great American?a distinguished, scholarly, yet eminently readable classic that has linked Freeman to Lee as irrevocably as Boswell to Dr. Johnson.
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Douglas Southall Freeman, the son of a Confederate soldier, was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1886. He was commissioned to write a one-volume biography of Lee in 1915, but his research and writings over two decades produced four large volumes. Freeman won another Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume definitive biography of George Washington. He died in 1953.
Content
- Intro
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter I: The Education of a Cadet
- Chapter II: Lee Prepares for the War with Mexico
- Chapter III: Twenty Months in Mexico
- Chapter IV: From West Point to Texas and Secession
- Chapter V: The First Campaign
- Chapter VI: Lee Wins the Command
- Chapter VII: The Seven Days
- Chapter VIII: Second Manassas and Sharpsburg
- Chapter IX: Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
- Chapter X: Gettysburg
- Chapter XI: The Spectre of Want and Disaster
- Chapter XII: The Wilderness
- Chapter XIII: The Twilight of the Confederacy
- Chapter XIV: Surrender? Not Yet
- Chapter XV: Appomattox
- Chapter XVI: The Call to Lexington
- Chapter XVII: The Beginning of the End
- Chapter XVIII: Strike the Tent
- Photograph
- Index
- Copyright
