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The Wartime Papers Of Robert E. Lee

Author : Clifford Dowdey
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306802829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Wartime Papers Of Robert E. Lee written by Clifford Dowdey and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1987-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental contribution to the literature of the Civil War brings together Lee's official correspondence—letters, orders, dispatches, battle reports—with his touching letters to his family, thus providing a previously unavailable view of Lee's life during the war. From the more than 6,000 items, the editors have chosen to reprint many letters in full for the first time, so that Lee is seen complete, self-revealed, in all his dignity and purpose. Short narratives connect each section—on the mobilization of Virginia, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and the siege of Petersburg and Appomattox. Sponsored by the Virginia Civil War Commission to commemorate the Civil War Centennial, this expert work of scholarship dramatizes Lee's life as only his own correspondence could. As Lee himself said: ”Letters are good representatives of our minds. They certainly present a good criterion for judging of the character of the individual.”

Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee

Author : Outlet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517347454
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee written by Outlet and published by . This book was released on 1988-12-12 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Lee's official Civil War correspondence--letters, orders, dispatches, and battle reports-complemented by his personal letters to his family.

The Wartime Papers of R.E. Lee

Author : Robert Edward Lee
Publisher : Boston (Mass.) : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Wartime Papers of R.E. Lee written by Robert Edward Lee and published by Boston (Mass.) : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1961 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Lee's official Civil War correspondence--letters, orders, dispatches, and battle reports-complemented by his personal letters to his family.

The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee

Author : Douglas Savage
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589799402
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee written by Douglas Savage and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the first day of July 1863, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia accidentally crossed swords with George Gordon Meade’s federal Army of the Potomac. They clashed at a tiny Pennsylvania crossroads called Gettysburg. Three days later, at least 22,000 Confederate men and boys were dead, wounded or captured, and the Yankees held the field when the river of bloodshed finally stopped. Gettysburg was General Lee’s worst defeat on an open field of battle. In The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee, a discouraged Confederate Congress summons General Lee to Richmond in December 1863, to face a board of inquiry on the Battle of Gettysburg. Through this speculative board of inquiry, the reader is drawn into the true history of the Army of Northern Virginia and the real political personalities and true political intrigue of Richmond in 1863. Will General Lee be relieved of command? Perhaps sent into retirement borne of catastrophic failure, leaving behind forever his beloved Army of Northern Virginia? The reader feels his pain and the anguish of a defeated general who wrote four months after Gettysburg that, “My heart and thoughts will always be with this army.”

The Man Who Would Not Be Washington

Author : Jonathan Horn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147674856X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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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 2015-01-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn reveals how the officer most associated with Washington went to war against the union that Washington had forged.

Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865

Author : Ethan S. Rafuse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742551268
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865 written by Ethan S. Rafuse and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reexamination of the last two years of Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Rafuse offers a clear, informative, and insightful account of Lee's ultimately unsuccessful struggle to defend the Confederacy against a relentless and determined foe. This book provides a comprehensive, yet concise and entertaining narrative of the battles and campaigns that highlighted this phase of the war and analyzes the battles and Lee's generalship in the context of the steady deterioration of the Confederacy's prospects for victory.

The Last Years of Robert E. Lee

Author : Douglas Savage
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1630760110
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Last Years of Robert E. Lee written by Douglas Savage and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details Lee’s life from Gettysburg to his death just five years after the South’s surrender at Appomattox. Rather than retreating bitterly from life, Lee sought to heal the nation, even meeting with his rival, Ulysses S. Grant, while the former Union general occupied the White House. Leaving his military life behind, Lee went on to become president of Washington College, where he was revered for his fairness as well as his willingness to help struggling students.

Lee In the Shadow of Washington

Author : Richard B. McCaslin
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807155551
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Lee In the Shadow of Washington written by Richard B. McCaslin and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?

The Civil War in Books

Author : David J. Eicher
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252022739
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in Books written by David J. Eicher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the assistance of several scholars, including James M. McPherson and Gary Gallagher, and a long-time specialist in Civil War books, Ralph Newman, David Eicher has selected for inclusion in The Civil War in Books the 1,100 most important books on the war. These are organized into categories as wide-ranging as "Battles and Campaigns," "Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters," "Unit Histories," and "General Works." The last of these includes volumes on black Americans and the war, battlefields, fiction, pictorial works, politics, prisons, railroads, and a host of other topics. Annotations are included for all entries in the work, which is presented in an oversized 8 1/2 x 11 inch volume in two-column format. Appendixes list "prolific" Civil War publishers and other Civil War bibliographies, and the works included in Eicher's mammoth undertaking are indexed by author or editor and by title. Gary Gallagher's foreword traces the development of Civil War bibliographies and declares that Eicher's annotation exceeds that of any previous comprehensive volume. The Civil War in Books, Gallagher believes, is "precisely the type of guide" that has been needed. The first full-scale, fully-annotated bibliography on the Civil War to appear in more than thirty years, Eicher's The Civil War in Books is a remarkable compendium of the best reading available about the worst conflict ever to strike the United States. The bibliography, the most valuable reference book on the subject since The Civil War Day by Day, will be essential for college and university libraries, dealers in rare and secondhand books, and Civil War buffs.

The Limits of the Lost Cause

Author : Gaines M. Foster
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807181951
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of the Lost Cause written by Gaines M. Foster and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Limits of the Lost Cause challenges prevailing ways of thinking about the impact of the Civil War on the American South. Above all, Gaines Foster’s work encourages Americans to confront the new divisions within their society even as they wrestle with old national—not just southern—failings.

Rebels at the Gate

Author : W Lesser
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402228740
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Rebels at the Gate written by W Lesser and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee's first defeats and the battles that shaped the Civil War.

The Cornfield

Author : David A. Welker
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504062388
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Cornfield written by David A. Welker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War battle in western Maryland that killed 22,000 men—and served no military purpose. For generations of Americans, the word Antietam—the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland—held the same sense of horror and carnage that the date 9/11 does for Americans today. But Antietam eclipses even this modern tragedy as America’s single bloodiest day, on which 22,000 men became casualties in a war to determine our nation’s future. Antietam is forever burned into the American psyche as a battle bathed in blood that served no military purpose and brought no decisive victory. This much Americans know was true. What they didn’t know was why the battle broke out at all—until now. The Cornfield: Antietam’s Bloody Turning Point tells for the first time the full story of the struggle to control “the Cornfield,” the action on which the costly battle of Antietam turned. Because Federal and Confederate forces repeatedly traded control of the spot, the fight for the Cornfield is a story of human struggle against fearful odds, men seeking to do their duty, and a simple test of survival. Many of the firsthand accounts included in this volume have never before been revealed to modern readers or assembled in such a comprehensive, readable narrative. At the same time, The Cornfield offers fresh views of the battle as a whole, arguing that two central facts doomed thousands of soldiers. This new, provocative perspective is certain to change our modern understanding of how the battle of Antietam was fought and its role in American history.

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Author : Emory M. Thomas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393316319
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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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.

Confederate Citadel

Author : Mary A. DeCredico
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813179289
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Citadel written by Mary A. DeCredico and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richmond, Virginia: pride of the founding fathers, doomed capital of the Confederate States of America. Unlike other Southern cities, Richmond boasted a vibrant, urban industrial complex capable of producing crucial ammunition and military supplies. Despite its northern position, Richmond became the Confederacy's beating heart—its capital, second-largest city, and impenetrable citadel. As long as the city endured, the Confederacy remained a well-supplied and formidable force. But when Ulysses S. Grant broke its defenses in 1865, the Confederates fled, burned Richmond to the ground, and surrendered within the week. Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War offers a detailed portrait of life's daily hardships in the rebel capital during the Civil War. Here, barricaded against a siege, staunch Unionists became a dangerous fifth column, refugees flooded the streets, and women organized a bread riot in the city. Drawing on personal correspondence, private diaries, and newspapers, author Mary A. DeCredico spotlights the human elements of Richmond's economic rise and fall, uncovering its significance as the South's industrial powerhouse throughout the Civil War.

Becoming Confederates

Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820345407
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Confederates written by Gary W. Gallagher and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early--three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many ways leading up to and during the war. Looking at levels of allegiance to their native state, to the slaveholding South, to the United States, and to the Confederacy, Gallagher shows how these men represent responses to the mid-nineteenth-century crisis. Lee traditionally has been presented as a reluctant convert to the Confederacy whose most powerful identification was with his home state of Virginia--an interpretation at odds with his far more complex range of loyalties. Ramseur, the youngest of the three, eagerly embraced a Confederate identity, highlighting generational differences in the equation of loyalty. Early combined elements of Lee's and Ramseur's reactions--a Unionist who grudgingly accepted Virginia's departure from the United States but later came to personify defiant Confederate nationalism. The paths of these men toward Confederate loyalty help delineate important contours of American history. Gallagher shows that Americans juggled multiple, often conflicting, loyalties and that white southern identity was preoccupied with racial control transcending politics and class. Indeed, understanding these men's perspectives makes it difficult to argue that the Confederacy should not be deemed a nation. Perhaps most important, their experiences help us understand why Confederates waged a prodigiously bloody war and the manner in which they dealt with defeat.

On Hallowed Ground

Author : Robert M. Poole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802715494
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book On Hallowed Ground written by Robert M. Poole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the founding of the monument cemetery on the former family plantation of Robert E. Lee, revealing how the site once intended for the burials of indigent soldiers became a national resting place of honor throughout the subsequent century.

The American Civil War

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313008302
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The American Civil War written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-12-09 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single most important volume for anyone interested in the Civil War to own and consult. (From the foreword by James M. McPherson) The first guide to Civil War literature to appear in nearly 30 years, this book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and informative survey and analysis of the vast body of Civil War literature. More than 40 essays, each by a specialist in a particular subfield of Civil War history, offer unmatched thoroughness and discerning assessments of each work's value. The essays cover every aspect of the war from strategy, tactics, and battles to logistics, intelligence, supply, and prisoner-of-war camps, from generals and admirals to the men in the ranks, from the Atlantic to the Far West, from fighting fronts to the home front. Some sections cover civilian leaders, the economy, and foreign policy, while others deal with the causes of war and aspects of Reconstruction, including the African-American experience during and after the war. Breadth of topics is matched by breadth of genres covered. Essays discuss surveys of the war, general reference works, published and unpublished papers, diaries and letters, as well as the vast body of monographic literature, including books, dissertations, and articles. Genealogical sources, historical fiction, and video and audio recordings also receive attention. Students of the American Civil War will find this work an indispensable gateway and guide to the enormous body of information on America's pivotal experience.