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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--
9) The man who would not be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and his decision that changed history
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Molding a Piedmont soldier, lawyer/reluctant secessionist -- Proving himself: First Manassas to Second Fredericksburg -- Searching for Stonewall's successor -- Jubal's moment of truth: the Washington Campaign -- Lee's forlorn hope: the Shenandoah nadir -- Unrepentant apostle of the lost cause -- Old Jube and American memory: explaining Jubal Early.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A journalist's memoir-plus-reporting about modern-day conflicts over Southern monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero and original leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a personal examination of the legacy of white supremacy through the US today, tracing the throughline from Appomattox to Charlottesville"--
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Presents a biographical sketch, photograph, and short bibliography of 137 Confederate generals who attained their rank through a route other than presidential appointment and have therefore been largely overlooked in historical accounts of the Civil War.
This book "brings to light a class of officers never before covered in any other book: the Confederacy's other generals. They are the men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Robert E. Lee seemed destined for greatness. His father was a Revolutionary War hero and at West Point he graduated second in his class! In 1861, when the Southern states seceded from the Union, Lee was offered the opportunity to command the Union forces. However, even though he was against the war, his loyalty to his home state of Virginia wouldn't let him fight for the North."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the Confederate general, describing his childhood, his thirty-five year career in the U.S. Army, his decision to fight for the South during the Civil War, and his command of some of the famous battles of the war.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"[P]ortrait of Lee as a brilliant general, a devoted family man, and principled gentleman who disliked slavery and disagreed with secession, yet who refused command of the Union Army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his beloved Virginia. Well-rounded and realistic, Clouds of Glory analyzes Lee's command during the Civil War and explores his responsibility for the fatal stalemate at Antietam, his defeat at Gettysburg (as well the...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. This film examines the life and reputation of the general, whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy, and who was elevated to almost god-like status by his admirers after his death"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
An account of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's rise to prominence during the Civil War.
"Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country's greatest military figures. His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the...
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