A Life Of Gen Robert E Lee

Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429021276
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee written by John Esten Cooke and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Biography

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101912227
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert E. Lee written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. "An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.

Author : Fitzhugh Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Lee written by Fitzhugh Lee and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy Blount (Jr.)
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670032204
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert E. Lee written by Roy Blount (Jr.) and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quintessential Southern commentator examines the great Confederate hope and Civil War hero.

Author : Emory M. Thomas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393316319
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( 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.

Author : Paul D. Casdorph
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813161711
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate General R.S. Ewell written by Paul D. Casdorph and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Stoddert Ewell is best known as the Confederate General selected by Robert E. Lee to replace "Stonewall" Jackson as chief of the Second Corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. Ewell is also remembered as the general who failed to drive Federal troops from the high ground of Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg. Many historians believe that Ewell's inaction cost the Confederates a victory in this seminal battle and, ultimately, cost the Civil War. During his long military career, Ewell was never an aggressive warrior. He graduated from West Point and served in the Indian wars in Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In 1861 he resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and rushed to the Confederate standard. Ewell saw action at First Manassas and took up divisional command under Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and in the Seven Days' Battles around Richmond. A crippling wound and a leg amputation soon compounded the persistent manic-depressive disorder that had hindered his ability to make difficult decisions on the battlefield. When Lee reorganized the Army of Northern Virginia in May of 1863, Ewell was promoted to lieutenant general. At the same time he married a widowed first cousin who came to dominate his life -- often to the disgust of his subordinate officers -- and he became heavily influenced by the wave of religious fervor that was then sweeping through the Confederate Army. In Confederate General R.S. Ewell, Paul D. Casdorph offers a fresh portrait of a major -- but deeply flawed -- figure in the Confederate war effort, examining the pattern of hesitancy and indecisiveness that characterized Ewell's entire military career. This definitive biography probes the crucial question of why Lee selected such an obviously inconsistent and unreliable commander to lead one-third of his army on the eve of the Gettysburg Campaign. Casdorph describes Ewell's intriguing life and career with penetrating insights into his loyalty to the Confederate cause and the Virginia ties that kept him in Lee's favor for much of the war. Complete with riveting descriptions of key battles, Ewell's biography is essential reading for Civil War historians.

Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425566692
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee. by John Esten Cooke. written by John Esten Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 644 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.

Author : Alan T. Nolan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807898430
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher : New York : D. Appleton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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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 690 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.

Author : John Esten Cooke
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 138718069X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of General Robert E. Lee written by John Esten Cooke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life of General Robert E. Lee is a fascinating character study of Lee written by a Civil War veteran who regularly observed the Confederate General in thought and action on the battlefield. John Esten Cooke's book offers a unique perspective on both Robert E. Lee and the Civil War, using direct quotes of dialogue by the War's principals (including Lee), official military communiqués and personal letters, all of which brings the man and era alive.