Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command

Vol. I - Manassas To Malvern Hill

Douglas Southall Freeman

• Publisher: Golden Springs Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786259462
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

Following the critical success of R. E. Lee: A Biography, for which he won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize, author Douglas Southall Freeman expanded his study of the Confederacy with the critically acclaimed three-volume Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, originally published in 1942, 1943, and 1944.Together, the three volumes present a unique combination of military strategy, biography, and Civil War history, and shows how armies actually work. Published during World War II, it had a great influence on American military leaders and strategists.Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command established Freeman as the pre-eminent military historian in the country, and led to close friendships with United States generals George Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• MAPS
• FOREWORD
• LEE’S PREDECESSORS AND LIEUTENANTS-IN THE FIRST PART OF THE TRILOGY OF THE HIGH COMMAND ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
• MINOR FIGURES OF THIS PART OF THE TRILOGY OF THE HIGH COMMAND, ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
• CHAPTER I-”OLD BORY’S COMING”
• CHAPTER II-MAGRUDER AND D. H. HILL EMERGE
• CHAPTER III-FIRST LOSS OF A LEADER
• CHAPTER IV-BEAUREGARD ESSAYS GRAND STRATEGY
• CHAPTER V-BEAUREGARD PLANS A BATTLE
• CHAPTER VI-BEAUREGARD’S STAR AT ZENITH
• CHAPTER VII-PURSUIT AND A CONFUSED COUNCIL
• CHAPTER VIII-SUBORDINATES OF PROMISE
• CHAPTER IX-THE STAR OF BEAUREGARD IS BECLOUDED
• CHAPTER X-JOHNSTON PASSES A DARK WINTER
• CHAPTER XI-JOHNSTON’S WITHDRAWAL FROM MANASSAS
• CHAPTER XII-JOHNSTON RETREATS AGAIN
• CHAPTER XIII-THE ARMY THAT LEFT YORKTOWN
• CHAPTER XIV-WILLIAMSBURG
• CHAPTER XV-ELTHAM INTRODUCES JOHN B. HOOD
• CHAPTER XVI-TWENTY-FOUR UNHAPPY DAYS
• CHAPTER XVII-SEVEN PINES: A BATTLE OF STRANGE ERRORS
• CHAPTER XVIII-GRIM FRUITS OF ANNIVERSARY
• CHAPTER XIX-OLD SNARLS ARE UNTANGLED
• CHAPTER XX-STUART JUSTIFIES HIS PLUME
• CHAPTER XXI-GENERAL AND DEACON JACKSON AT ODDS
• CHAPTER XXII-THE BUILDING OF A “NEW MODEL” ARMY
• CHAPTER XXIII-”DICK” EWELL STICKS BY A “CRAZY MAN”
• CHAPTER XXIV-JACKSON LAUNCHES HIS OFFENSIVE
• CHAPTER XXV-CEDARVILLE TO WINCHESTER-A DREADFUL NIGHT
• CHAPTER XXVI-A VICTORY ENDS AT A MANSE
• CHAPTER XXVII-”FROM THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER”
• CHAPTER XXVIII-A CROWNING DOUBLE VICTORY
• CHAPTER XXIX-”THE HERO OF THE SOUTH”
• CHAPTER XXX-JACKSON MARCHES TO A CONFUSING FIELD
• CHAPTER XXXI-THE NEW ORGANIZATION FAILS
• CHAPTER XXXII-FIRST BATTLE OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
• CHAPTER XXXIII-MAGRUDER STAYS UP TOO LONG
• CHAPTER XXXIV-THE DELAY IN THE RECONCENTRATION
• CHAPTER XXXV-TWO COLUMNS ARE HALTED
• CHAPTER XXXVI-HOLMES ADVANCES AND MAGRUDER GALLOPS IN VAIN
• CHAPTER XXXVII-MALVERN HILL: A TRAGEDY OF STAFF
• CHAPTER XXXVIII-THE END OF MAGRUDER AND OF HUGER
• CHAPTER XXXIX-DISCONTENT AND DYSPEPSIA AS PROBLEMS OF COMMAND
• CHAPTER XL-STUART MAKES A SECOND “RAID”
• CHAPTER XLI-THE JUNIORS WHO VIED WITH VETERANS
• CHAPTER XLII-THE ENIGMA OF JACKSON’S STATE OF MIND
• CHAPTER XLIII-A NEW ORGANIZATION FOR NEW BATTLES
• APPENDIX I-THE MILITARY GEOGRAPHY OF VIRGINIA
• APPENDIX II-SOUTHERN RESOURCES OF COMMAND
• APPENDIX III-THE DISTRIBUTION OF BEAUREGARD’S COMBAT ORDER OF JULY 20, 1861
• APPENDIX IV-ORDER OF BATTLE OF CONFEDERATE INFANTRY, JULY 21, 1861
• APPENDIX V-ORIGIN OF THE NAME “STONEWALL”
• APPENDIX VI-JACKSON’S PLANS AND MARCHES OF MAY 24, 1862
• PRINCIPAL MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
• SHORT-TITLE INDEX
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