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.
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.
Download or read book Recollections and Letters of General Robert E Lee written by Robert Edward Lee and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GENERAL ROBERT E LEE C S A written by His Son: Capt. R. E. Lee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Robert E. Lee a racist? How could he lead an army allegedly created to defend human bondage? The truth is in the this book, written by his son, Captain Robert E. Lee. The quick answer is "NO" -- General Lee despised the practice of slavery. In fact, he had publically stated his support for legislation already in the works to emancipate the African workers in Virginia -- and ultimately all of the South. So General Lee and his fellow Southerners fought for something else -- read this book to find out.
Download or read book Recollections and Letters of General Robert E Lee written by Robert E. Lee and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Lee was a prolific writer, seemingly writing letters almost every day of his life, although he never really wrote his own memoirs. This book presents an extraordinary historical account, which allows us to learn the personality of the great Confederate leader through his everyday actions, like walking with his favorite dog or talking with his family members.
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Patricia A. Grabowski and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee was proud to serve the United States as a soldier, but when the Civil War broke out he felt it was his duty to follow his southern roots. Lee was a gifted general whose men were loyal to him, and he led the Confederacy to victory after victo
Download or read book Lee s Dispatches written by Robert Edward Lee and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Mona Kerby and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved figures in American History, Robert E. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. This "Southern gentleman's" successes against overwhelming odds were a result of his bold strategies.
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Earle Rice and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young adult biography of Confederate Army Commander Robert E. Lee
Download or read book A Life of Gen Robert E Lee written by John Esten Cooke and published by New York : D. Appleton. This book was released on 1871 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of Lee is beloved and respected throughout the world. Men of all parties and opinions unite in this sentiment not only those who thought and fought with him but those most violently opposed to his political views and career.
Download or read book Memoirs of Robert E Lee written by Armistead Lindsay Long and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Terry Lee Collins and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern General Robert E. Lee felt that it was a mistake for the South to fight in the U.S. Civil War. In spite of his doubts, he led his men to victory in several important battles. But eventually the South lost the war, and Lee had to surrender. Join him as he recalls the biggest battles of the war and teaches his men that they can have dignity even in defeat.
Download or read book The Campaigns of Gen Robert E Lee written by Jubal Anderson Early and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections and Letters of General Robert E Lee written by Robert E. Lee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1909 and written by Robert E. Lee, Jr. this is a collection of letters written by Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Robert E. Lee, Jr.'s recollections of his father, from Robert Lee Jr.'s childhood until the death of General Lee.
Download or read book Lee s Aide de Camp written by Charles Marshall and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Marshall was appointed aide-de-camp to Robert E. Lee on 21 March 1862, and from then until the surrender, he stood at the general?s side. A military secretary, he compiled a remarkable, intimate account of the day-to-day wartime experience of the Confederacy?s most celebrated--and enigmatic--military figure. Marshall?s papers are of three sorts: those intended for a projected life of Lee, those intended for an account of the campaign at Gettysburg, and notes on events of the war. Collected here, these papers provide a unique firsthand look at Lee?s generalship?from the most complete account ever given of the fateful orders issued to Jeb Stuart at Gettysburg, to the only testimony from a Southern witness of the scene in McLean?s house at Appomattox. Marshall?s commentary addresses some of the war?s more intriguing questions: Whose idea was it to fight the second Manassas? What caused Jackson?s delays in the Battles of the Seven Days? Who devised the flank march around Hooker at Chancellorsville? This book?s insights into Robert E. Lee and his military strategy and its close-up report on the Confederacy?s war qualify it as an indispensable part of America?s historical record.
Download or read book Personal Reminiscences of General Robert E Lee written by J. William Jones and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert E. Lee passed on without setting pen to paper on his memoirs, both North and South alike were deprived of a classic personal history of the War Between the States worthy to sit on the shelf next to Ulysses S.Grant's Personal Memoirs. The Reverend J. William Jones, Lee's chaplain, compiled this collection of reminiscences in its place as a memorial volume commemorating his death. Filled with correspondence with President Andrew Johnson, General Grant, and C.S.A. Generals Scott, Beauregard, and Longstreet, and personal anecdotes from Lee's wartime contemporaries such as Jubal Early, Jeb Magruder, Jefferson Davis, and Winfield Scott. What comes to light is a personal portrait of Lee as family man, gentleman, scholar, and soldier, as well as an eyewitness account of the war that threatened to tear the United States asunder, as witnessed by the South's greatest military leader. The Reverend J. William Jones, D.D., was the chaplain of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of General Robert E. Lee and after the Civil War served as chaplain for Washington College in Virginia under Lee's presidency. It was my proud privilege to have known General Lee intimately. I saw him on that day in April, 1861, on which he came to offer his stainless sword to the land that gave him birth. I followed his standard from Harper's Ferry, in 1861, to Appomattox Court-house, in 1865, coming into somewhat frequent contact with him, rejoicing with him at his long series of brilliant victories, and weeping with him when "compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. . . . " This first attempt at authorship is sent forth with a sincere desire that it may prove acceptable to the countless admirer of the great Confederate chieftain, that it may serve to give to all a higher appreciation of his noble character, and that it may prove a blessing to the young men of the country (more especially to those who "wore the gray"), by inducing them to study, in order that they may imitate, his shining virtues.
