Download or read book General Lee s Army written by Joseph Glatthaar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee presents portraits of soldiers from all walks of life, offers insight into how the Confederacy conducted key operations, and reveals how closely the South came to winning the war.
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Brandon Marie Miller and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive young adult biography of the life of one of the most mythologized men in American and Civil War history: General Lee of the Confederate States Army Robert E. Lee’s life was filled with responsibility and loyalty. Born to a Revolutionary War hero, Lee learned a sense of duty and restraint after weathering scandals brought on by his father and eldest brother. He found the perfect way to channel this sense of duty at West Point, where he spent his days under rigorous teachers who taught him the organizational skills and discipline he would apply for the rest of his life. The military became Lee’s life: he was often away from his beloved family, making strides with the Army, forcibly expanding the United States toward the Western coastline, and fighting the Mexican-American War. And ultimately, the military and his defining role therein—General of the Confederate Army—would prove to be Lee’s legacy. Author Brandon Marie Miller separates fact from fiction and reveals the complex truth behind who Lee was as a person, a soldier, a general, and a father. The book includes numerous archival images, as well as original quotations, a timeline, an author's note, a family tree, source notes, a bibliography, and an index.
Download or read book General Lee Man and Soldier written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert E Lee and Me written by Ty Seidule and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron Chernow In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning. In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about the Confederacy—that its undisputed primary goal was the subjugation and enslavement of Black Americans—and directly challenges the idea of honoring those who labored to preserve that system and committed treason in their failed attempt to achieve it. Through the arc of Seidule’s own life, as well as the culture that formed him, he seeks a path to understanding why the facts of the Civil War have remained buried beneath layers of myth and even outright lies—and how they embody a cultural gulf that separates millions of Americans to this day. Part history lecture, part meditation on the Civil War and its fallout, and part memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the deeply-held legends and myths of the Confederacy—and provides a surprising interpretation of essential truths that our country still has a difficult time articulating and accepting.
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia written by Joseph T. Glatthaar and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sophisticated quantitative study, Joseph T. Glatthaar provides a comprehensive narrative and statistical analysis of many key aspects of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Serving as a companion to Glatthaar's General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse, this book presents Glatthaar's supporting data and major conclusions in extensive and extraordinary detail. While gathering research materials for General Lee's Army, Glatthaar compiled quantitative data on the background and service of 600 randomly selected soldiers--150 artillerists, 150 cavalrymen, and 300 infantrymen--affording him fascinating insight into the prewar and wartime experience of Lee's troops. Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia presents the full details of this fresh, important primary research in a way that is useful to scholars and students and appeals to anyone with a serious interest in the Civil War. While confirming much of what is believed about the army, Glatthaar's evidence challenges some conventional thinking in significant ways, such as showing that nearly half of all Lee's soldiers lived in slaveholding households (a number higher than previously thought), and provides a broader and fuller portrait of the men who served under General Lee.
Download or read book Robert E Lee Man and Soldier written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Philip Van Doren Stern and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creates a warm and vivid portrait of Lee, the man, as well as of Lee the general.
Download or read book Robert E Lee Brave Leader written by Rae Bains and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the highly respected Confederate general, with an emphasis on his difficult boyhood in Virginia.
Download or read book Robert E Lee Man and Soldier Classic Reprint written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Robert E. Lee, Man and Soldier I desire, however, to signalize certain authorities whose masterly Studies have been found generally so accurate as to appear conclusive on the subjects of which they have treated. These are Mr. John C. Ropes' Story of the Civil War, Colonel William Allan's Army of Northern Virginia, Colonel G. F. R. Henderson's Life of Stonewall Jackson, Major John Bigelow, Jr.'s, Campaign of Chancellorsville (the most complete and authoritative history of any battle ever fought on American soil), and finally, Gen eral A. A. Humphreys' The Virginia Campaign of '64 and '65. These I have often followed closely and, though I have not always adopted their conclusions, I desire to record my indebtedness to them in the fullest possible way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book General Robert E Lee the Christian Soldier written by Judith White McGuire and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book General Lee A Biography of Robert E Lee written by Fitzhugh Lee and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a memoir by Lee's nephew and fellow soldier, General Lee paints a vivid and admiring portrait of a brilliant 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.
Download or read book Four Years with General Lee written by Walter Herron Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert E Lee written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of Robert E Lee written by Michael Fellman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rigorous research and unprecedented insight into Robert E. Lee's personal and public lives, Michael Fellman here uncovers the intelligent, ambitious, and often troubled man behind the legend, exploring his life within the social, cultural, and political context of the nineteenth-century American South.
Download or read book Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee written by J. William Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man It is not my purpose in this book to treat Of the great war between the States, its causes, its conduct, or its results. Nor can I treat fully, in the space I shall use, Of Lee the soldier, or Lee the man. But as it was my proud privilege to know General Lee in war and in peace, and to enjoy some peculiar facilities for studying his life and character, I think I may, without improper egotism, claim some qualifications for writing Of him as he really was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
