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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee. The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who commanded -- among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell -- developed as leaders and men. Lee's Lieutenants follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation. Accessible at last in a one-volume edition abridged by noted Civil War historian Stephen W. Sears, Lee's Lieutenants is essential reading for all Civil War buffs, students of war, and admirers of the historian's art as practiced at its very highest level.
Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of
Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first
published in 1935. This reissue chronicles all the major aspects
and highlights of the general's military career, from his stunning
accomplishments in the Mexican War to the humbling surrender at
Appomattox. More than just a military leader, Lee embodied all the
conflicts of his time. The son of a Revolutionary War hero and
related by marriage to George Washington, he was the product of
young America's elite. When Abraham Lincoln offered him command of
the United States Army, however, he choose to lead the confederate
ranks, convinced that his first loyalty lay with his native
Virginia. Although a member of the planter class, he felt that
slavery was "a moral and political evil." Aloof and somber, he
nevertheless continually inspired his men by his deep concern for
their personal welfare. Freeman's biography is the full portrait of
a great American--a distinguished, scholarly, yet eminently
readable classic that has linked Freeman to Lee as irrevocably as
Boswell to Dr. Johnson.
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Washington (Paperback)
Douglas Southall Freeman
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Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of
George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and
military historian Douglas Southall Freeman won his second Pulitzer
Prize for his new dramatic reexamination of George Washington.
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Additional Contributors Include Henry Van Dusen, Robert Hutchins,
And Ordway Tead. Preface By Samuel P. Franklin. Foreword By Hugh
Thomson Kerr.
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Additional Contributors Include Henry Van Dusen, Robert Hutchins,
And Ordway Tead. Preface By Samuel P. Franklin. Foreword By Hugh
Thomson Kerr.
An unquestioned masterpiece of the historian's art, and a towering
landmark in the literature of the American Civil War.
In "Gettysburg to Appomattox, " Douglas Southall Freeman concludes
his monumental three-volume study of Lee's command of the
Confederacy, a dramatic history that brings to vivid life the men
in that command and the part each played in this country's most
tragic struggle.
Volume three continues the stirring account of Lee's army, from the
costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the
South's declining military might, to the tragic inward collapse of
Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled
descriptions of Lee's subordinates and the operations in which they
participated, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the
lessons that were to be learned from the story of the Army of
Northern Virginia and their bearing upon the future military
development of the nation.
As in the first two volumes, portrait photographs, military maps,
several appendixes, and a bibliography add to the clarity and
richness of the book. The complete three-volume study, "Lee's
Lieutenants, " is a classic touchstone in the literature of
American biography, and in all the literature of war.
Preliminary Report Of The Southern Historical Manuscripts
Commission, Prepared Under The Direction Of The Confederate
Memorial Literary Society.
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One of the best primary accounts of the Civil War by a Confederate.
John Dooley was the youngest son of Irish immigrants to Richmond,
Virginia, where his father prospered, and the family took a leading
position among Richmond's sizeable Irish community. Early in 1862,
John left his studies at Georgetown University to serve in the
First Virginia Infantry Regiment, in which his father John and
brother James also served. John's service took him to Second
Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Fredericksburg,
and Gettysburg; before that last battle, Dooley was elected a
lieutenant. On the third day at Gettysburg, Dooley swept up the
hill in Pickett's charge, where he was shot through both legs and
lay all night on the field, to be made a POW the next day. Held
until February 27, 1865, Dooley made his way back south to arrive
home very near the Confederacy's final collapse. Dooley's account
is valuable for the content of his service and because most of the
material came from his diary, with some interpolations (which are
indicated as such) that he made shortly after the war's end when
his memory was still fresh. Dooley's health seems to have been
permanently compromised by his wounds; he entered a Roman Catholic
seminary after the war and died in 1873 several months before his
ordination was to take place.
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