Lee the American

Gamaliel Bradford

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780486433684
• eBook ISBN: 9780486147604
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

Sympathetic portrait of an enigmatic man who was a model of decorum and honor, a moderate on the issue of secession, a fierce fighter in battle, and a chivalrous soldier — even in defeat. Exceptional sourcebook for students of American history, Civil War buffs, and admirers of the Southern general. 10 black-and-white illustrations.

Notes

CHAPTER I

1

For an exhaustive discussion of the Lee genealogy, see Lee of Virginia, by Edmund Lee. (Philadelphia, 1895.)

2

S. H. S. P., vol. IX, p. 198.

3

F. Lee, p. 2. In his memoir of his father, however, the general goes quite extensively into the English affiliations.

4

Jones, Life, p. 33.

5

To Mrs. Lee, in F. Lee, p. 21.

6

Works (ed. Ford), vol. X, p. 222.

7

Jones, Life, p. 154.

8

Long, p. 23.

9

Charles Lee, quoted in Lee’s memoir of his father, p. 29.

10

Long, p. 19.

11

Jones, Life, p. 118.

12

G. M. Sorrel, Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer, p. 74.

13

From Manassas to Appomattox, p. 287.

14

Mason, p. 24.

15

To Cabell, November, 1820, Works (ed. Ford), vol. x, p. 166.

16

Writer in Putnam’s Monthly, quoted in Olmsted, Journey to the Seaboard Slave States, p. 245.

17

Ibid.

18

Jones, Life, p. 24.

19

Jones, Life, p. 27.

20

John Quincy Adams, Diary, vol. VII, p. 298.

21

Thomas Nelson Page, The Old South, p. 184.

22

Journey to the Seaboard Slave States, p. 247.

23

Long, p. 30.

24

Jones, Rem., p. 291.

25

Jones, Rem., p. 290. Condensed.

26

Testimony at Pillow Inquiry, Senate Doc., 30th Congress, First Session, vol. VIII, p. 73.

27

Report in Senate Doc. as above, vol. I, p. 332.

28

Report in Senate Doc. as above, vol. I, p. 306.

29

Report in Senate Doc. as above, vol. I, p. 315.

30

Long, p. 61.

31

Ibid.

32

Colonel Preston, direct from Scott, in “Lee Memorial Address,” printed in Mason, p. 382. I find in F. Grasset’s La Guerre de la Sécession, vol. II, p. 59, a saying attributed to Scott, which I have not been able to trace to an American source, but which, if not a prophecy manufactured after the event, has a good deal of interest: “Défiez-vous de Lee quand il avance et de Johnston lorsqu’il recule, car le diable lui-même se ferait battre, s’il les...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface to the Revised Edition
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• I - Lee Before the War
• II - The Great Decision
• III - Lee and Davis
• IV - Lee and the Confederate Government
• V - Lee and His Army
• VI - Lee and Jackson
• VII - Lee in Battle
• VIII - Lee as a General
• IX - Lee’s Social and Domestic Life
• X - Lee’s Spiritual Life
• XI - Lee After the War
• APPENDIX - Lee and Psychography
• Titles of Books Most Frequently Cited, Showing Abbreviations Used
• Notes
• Index