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Author : Fitzhugh Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book General Lee written by Fitzhugh Lee and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101912227
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Robert E. Lee written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. "An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.
Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429021276
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee written by John Esten Cooke and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Biography
Author : Alan T. Nolan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807898430
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Lee Considered written by Alan T. Nolan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed slavery, and a brilliant military leader whose exploits sustained the Confederate cause. Alan Nolan explodes these and other assumptions about Lee and the war through a rigorous reexamination of familiar and long-available historical sources, including Lee's personal and official correspondence and the large body of writings about Lee. Looking at this evidence in a critical way, Nolan concludes that there is little truth to the dogmas traditionally set forth about Lee and the war.
Author : Emory M. Thomas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393316319
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Robert E. Lee: A Biography written by Emory M. Thomas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-06-17 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books The life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph—triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil War. But late in life Lee confessed that he "was always wanting something." In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol and hero in the American story. But in life, Thomas writes, Lee was both more and less than his legend. Here is the man behind the legend.
Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062116312
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Clouds of Glory written by Michael Korda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times bestselling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and T. E. Lawrence, has written the first major biography of Lee in nearly twenty years, bringing to life one of America's greatest, most iconic heroes. Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his own children, his neighbors, and his beloved Virginia. He was surely America's preeminent military leader, as calm, dignified, and commanding a presence in defeat as he was in victory. Lee's reputation has only grown in the 150 years since the Civil War, and Korda covers in groundbreaking detail all of Lee's battles and traces the making of a great man's undeniable reputation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, positioning him finally as the symbolic martyr-hero of the Southern Cause. Clouds of Glory features dozens of stunning illustrations, some never before seen, including eight pages of color, sixteen pages of black-and-white, and nearly fifty battle maps.
Author : Roy Blount (Jr.)
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670032204
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Robert E. Lee written by Roy Blount (Jr.) and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quintessential Southern commentator examines the great Confederate hope and Civil War hero.
Author : Paul D. Casdorph
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813161711
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Confederate General R.S. Ewell written by Paul D. Casdorph and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Stoddert Ewell is best known as the Confederate General selected by Robert E. Lee to replace "Stonewall" Jackson as chief of the Second Corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. Ewell is also remembered as the general who failed to drive Federal troops from the high ground of Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg. Many historians believe that Ewell's inaction cost the Confederates a victory in this seminal battle and, ultimately, cost the Civil War. During his long military career, Ewell was never an aggressive warrior. He graduated from West Point and served in the Indian wars in Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In 1861 he resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and rushed to the Confederate standard. Ewell saw action at First Manassas and took up divisional command under Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and in the Seven Days' Battles around Richmond. A crippling wound and a leg amputation soon compounded the persistent manic-depressive disorder that had hindered his ability to make difficult decisions on the battlefield. When Lee reorganized the Army of Northern Virginia in May of 1863, Ewell was promoted to lieutenant general. At the same time he married a widowed first cousin who came to dominate his life -- often to the disgust of his subordinate officers -- and he became heavily influenced by the wave of religious fervor that was then sweeping through the Confederate Army. In Confederate General R.S. Ewell, Paul D. Casdorph offers a fresh portrait of a major -- but deeply flawed -- figure in the Confederate war effort, examining the pattern of hesitancy and indecisiveness that characterized Ewell's entire military career. This definitive biography probes the crucial question of why Lee selected such an obviously inconsistent and unreliable commander to lead one-third of his army on the eve of the Gettysburg Campaign. Casdorph describes Ewell's intriguing life and career with penetrating insights into his loyalty to the Confederate cause and the Virginia ties that kept him in Lee's favor for much of the war. Complete with riveting descriptions of key battles, Ewell's biography is essential reading for Civil War historians.
Author : G Mercer Adam
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020635106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Life of General Robert E. Lee written by G Mercer Adam and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the renowned Confederate general who led Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101202467
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Reading the Man written by Elizabeth Brown Pryor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pryor’s biography helps part with a lot of stupid out there about Lee – chiefly, that he was, somehow, ‘anti-slavery.’” – Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com An “unorthodox, critical, and engaging biography” (Boston Globe) – Winner of The Lincoln Prize Robert E. Lee is remembered by history as a tragic figure, stoic and brave but distant and enigmatic. Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and contradictory general's life story. Explained for the first time in the context of the young United States's tumultuous societal developments, Lee's actions reveal a man forced to play a leading role in the formation of the nation at the cost of his private happiness.
Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 138718069X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (871 download)
Download or read book A Life of General Robert E. Lee written by John Esten Cooke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life of General Robert E. Lee is a fascinating character study of Lee written by a Civil War veteran who regularly observed the Confederate General in thought and action on the battlefield. John Esten Cooke's book offers a unique perspective on both Robert E. Lee and the Civil War, using direct quotes of dialogue by the War's principals (including Lee), official military communiqués and personal letters, all of which brings the man and era alive.
Author : Cox, R. David
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802874827
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee written by Cox, R. David and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee was many things--accomplished soldier, military engineer, college president, family man, agent of reconciliation, polarizing figure. He was also a person of deep Christian conviction. In this biography of the famous Civil War general, R. David Cox shows how Lee's Christian faith shaped his crucial role in some of the most pivotal events in American history. -- Back cover.
Author : John William Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Personal reminiscences, anecdoates, and letters of gen. Robert E. Lee written by John William Jones and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Fleming
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1640190635
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee written by Thomas Fleming and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1865. The Civil War is over, and the South lies in ruins. But for some people, former slaveholders have not been punished enough. A cabal of powerful men, led by Charles A. Dana, the assistant secretary of war, plot to break the spirit of the South once and for all - by convicting General Robert E. Lee of treason and hanging him like a common criminal. To this end, they have convened a secret military tribunal in Lee's former home in Arlington, Virginia. Jeremiah O'Brien of the New-York Tribune, a long-time protégé of Dana's, is the only reporter allowed to attend the trial. His exclusive reports on this momentous event, and the book he intends to write, will surely make his fortune. Yet as the trial proceeds, pitting the general against his accusers, O'Brien finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dana, his love for a Confederate spy, and his growing respect and compassion for Lee himself. The young reporter is supposed to be only an observer, but, in the end, it is O'Brien who must evaluate the evidence and determine the true meaning of honor. Written by New York Times bestselling author and historian Thomas Fleming, The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee brings to life a fascinating chapter in American history that might well have happened - and perhaps truly did.
Author : Marcus Joseph Wright
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342424887
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Robert E. Lee written by Marcus Joseph Wright and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Jennifer Blizin Gillis
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756508210
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Robert E. Lee written by Jennifer Blizin Gillis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and military career of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
Author : Jonathan Horn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476748578
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Would Not Be Washington written by Jonathan Horn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by Scribner.
