A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry
Williams not only produced such acclaimed works as Lincoln and the
Radicals, Lincoln and His Generals, and a biography of Huey Long
that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, but
he also mentored generations of students who became distinguished
historians in their own right. In this collection, ten of those
former students, along with one author greatly inspired by
Williams's example, offer incisive essays that honor both Williams
and his career-long dedication to sound, imaginative scholarship
and broad historical inquiry. The opening and closing essays,
fittingly enough, deal with Williams himself: a biographical sketch
by Frank J. Wetta and a piece by Roger Spiller that place Williams
in larger historical perspective among writers on Civil War
generalship. The bulk of the book focuses on Robert E. Lee and a
number of the commanders who served under him, starting with
Charles Roland's seminal article 'The Generalship of Robert E.
Lee,' the only one in the collection that has been previously
published. Among the essays that follow Roland's are contributions
by Brian Holden Reid on the ebb and flow of Lee's reputation,
George C. Rable on Stonewall Jackson's deep religious commitment,
A. Wilson Greene on P. G. T. Beauregard's role in the Petersburg
Campaign, and William L. Richter on James Longstreet as postwar
pariah. Together these gifted historians raise a host of
penetrating and original questions about how we are to understand
America's defining conflict in our own time - just as T. Harry
Williams did in his. And by encompassing such varied subjects as
military history, religion, and historiography, Lee and His
Generals demonstrates once more what a fertile field Civil War
scholarship remains. Lawrence Lee Hewitt is professor of history
emeritus at Southeastern Louisiana University. Most recently, he
and Arthur W. Bergeron, now deceased, coedited three volumes of
essays under the collective title Confederate Generals in the
Western Theater. Thomas E. Schott served for many years as a
historian for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Special Operations
Command. He is the author of Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A
Biography, which won both the Society of American Historians Award
and the Jefferson Davis Award.|A legendary professor at Louisiana
State University, T. Harry Williams not only produced such
acclaimed works as Lincoln and the Radicals, Lincoln and His
Generals, and a biography of Huey Long that won both the Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book Award, but he also mentored generations
of students who became distinguished historians in their own right.
In this collection, ten of those former students, along with one
author greatly inspired by Williams's example, offer incisive
essays that honor both Williams and his career-long dedication to
sound, imaginative scholarship and broad historical inquiry. The
opening and closing essays, fittingly enough, deal with Williams
himself: a biographical sketch by Frank J. Wetta and a piece by
Roger Spiller that place Williams in larger historical perspective
among writers on Civil War generalship. The bulk of the book
focuses on Robert E. Lee and a number of the commanders who served
under him, starting with Charles Roland's seminal article 'The
Generalship of Robert E. Lee,' the only one in the collection that
has been previously published. Among the essays that follow
Roland's are contributions by Brian Holden Reid on the ebb and flow
of Lee's reputation, George C. Rable on Stonewall Jackson's deep
religious commitment, A. Wilson Greene on P. G. T. Beauregard's
role in the Petersburg Campaign, and William L. Richter on James
Longstreet as postwar pariah. Together these gifted historians
raise a host of penetrating and original questions about how we are
to understand America's defining conflict in our own time - just as
T. Harry Williams did in his. And by encompassing such varied
subjects as military history, religion, and historiography, Lee and
His Generals demonstrates once more what a fertile field Civil War
scholarship remains. Lawrence Lee Hewitt is professor of history
emeritus at Southeastern Louisiana University. Most recently, he
and Arthur W. Bergeron, now deceased, coedited three volumes of
essays under the collective title Confederate Generals in the
Western Theater. Thomas E. Schott served for many years as a
historian for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Special Operations
Command. He is the author of Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A
Biography, which won both the Society of American Historians Award
and the Jefferson Davis Award.
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