Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command( 3 Vols. set)

Freeman, Douglas Southall

ISBN 10: 0684101750 / ISBN 13: 9780684101750

Published by Scribner, 1970

About this Item

Vol. I (Manassas to Malvern Hill) has 8 portrait photos & 29 military maps; Vol. II (Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville) was published in 1972, ISBN 0684101769, "Z" and has 8 portrait photos & 32 military maps; Vol. III (Gettysburg to Appomattox) was published in 1971, ISBN 0684101777, "U" and has 8 portrait photos & 46 military maps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command( 3 Vols. set)
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684101750
• ISBN 13: 9780684101750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: BB
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Sl Chipped, Sl Soiled Dj

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Synopsis

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.

Review

Allan Nevins That Douglas Southall Freeman is our most eminent biographer and ablest military historian no one will dispute.