Lee
eBook - ePub

Lee

  1. 656 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lee

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9780684829531
eBook ISBN
9781439107492
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter I: The Education of a Cadet
  6. Chapter II: Lee Prepares for the War with Mexico
  7. Chapter III: Twenty Months in Mexico
  8. Chapter IV: From West Point to Texas and Secession
  9. Chapter V: The First Campaign
  10. Chapter VI: Lee Wins the Command
  11. Chapter VII: The Seven Days
  12. Chapter VIII: Second Manassas and Sharpsburg
  13. Chapter IX: Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
  14. Chapter X: Gettysburg
  15. Chapter XI: The Spectre of Want and Disaster
  16. Chapter XII: The Wilderness
  17. Chapter XIII: The Twilight of the Confederacy
  18. Chapter XIV: Surrender? Not Yet
  19. Chapter XV: Appomattox
  20. Chapter XVI: The Call to Lexington
  21. Chapter XVII: The Beginning of the End
  22. Chapter XVIII: Strike the Tent
  23. Photograph
  24. Index
  25. Copyright

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