Robert E. Lee In Texas - Softcover

Rister, Carl Coke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1258114283 ISBN 13: 9781258114282

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011

Synopsis

"Robert E. Lee in Texas" introduces a little known phase of the great General's career--his service in Texas during the four turbulent years just preceding the Civil War. In this account Carl Coke Rister takes us with Lee to his lonely posts on the border, and we share with him the hazardous and often fruitless chases after bands of American Indians and Mexicans. We see through the eyes of the "Academy man" the raw life on the frontier and hear through his own words his impressions of the country and people.

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About this title

About the Author

Carl Coke Rister was a research professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. His many books include Southern Plainsmen; Border Captives: The Traffic in Prisoners by the Southern Plains Indians, 1835-1875; Land Hunger: David L. Payne and the Oklahoma Boomers; and Border Command: General Phil Sheridan in the West.

Review

""An illuminating story, not only because of its insight into the character of the man who became the military leader of the Confederacy, but because of its description of soldier life on the border."

Edition details

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1258114283
• ISBN 13: 9781258114282
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214