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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee.
The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who commanded -- among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell -- developed as leaders and men. Lee's Lieutenants follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation. Accessible at last in a one-volume edition abridged by noted Civil War historian Stephen W. Sears, Lee's Lieutenants is essential reading for all Civil War buffs, students of war, and admirers of the historian's art as practiced at its very highest level.
The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who commanded -- among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell -- developed as leaders and men. Lee's Lieutenants follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation. Accessible at last in a one-volume edition abridged by noted Civil War historian Stephen W. Sears, Lee's Lieutenants is essential reading for all Civil War buffs, students of war, and admirers of the historian's art as practiced at its very highest level.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction: James M. McPherson
- Foreword: Douglas Southall Freeman
- Editorial Note: Stephen W. Sears
- Dramatis Person
- 1. Opening Guns
- 2. Beauregardâs Battlefield
- 3. Beauregardâs Star Wanes
- 4. Johnston Passes a Dark Winter
- 5. Challenge on the Peninsula
- 6. Seven Pines
- 7. To Defend Richmond
- 8. Guarding the Valley
- 9. Jackson Launches His Offensive
- 10. Victory in the Valley
- 11. Struggle for Richmond
- 12. Richmond Relieved
- 13. Lessons of the Seven Days
- 14. Facing a New Threat
- 15. Return to Manassas
- 16. Across the Potomac
- 17. Desperate Hours on the Antietam
- 18. Rebuilding an Army
- 19. Battle at Fredericksburg
- 20. In Winter Quarters
- 21. Facing a New Campaign
- 22. Jackson Gets His Greatest Orders
- 23. Victory and Tragedy at Chancellorsville
- 24. Renewal and Reorganization
- 25. Across the Potomac Again
- 26. Two Days of Battle
- 27. Gettysburg and Its Cost
- 28. Challenges for Longstreet, Hill, and Stuart
- 29. Tests and Trials of Winter
- 30. The Wilderness and Spotsylvania
- 31. Richmond Threatened
- 32. New Fronts, New Battles
- 33. The Darkening Autumn of Command
- 34. In a Ring of Iron
- 35. The Last March
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photos
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