"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"--

An introduction to the life of the Commander in Chief of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

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.

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...

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.

"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.

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...