Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, Vol. 2 - Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville

Douglas Southall Freeman

ISBN 10: 0684837846 / ISBN 13: 9780684837840

Published by Scribner, 1997

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Cream coloured hard cover with cream linen quarter binding. Bottom right corner has a pale brown stain about the size of a pencil eraser head on the bottom right corner. 760 pristine pages. Volume 2 only. black marker stripe on bottom foredge. Dust jacket has shades of pale yellow background, with thin navy blue horizontal stripes, a navy blue inset with a small sqaure photo of Lee. Spine is cream with navy blue bottom half. Some light smudging about the top upper corner, a bit along the spine both front and back. Shows minimal wear save for a wee bit of bending at top and bottom of spine. Any picture found beside this listing may NOT actually be a picture of this book but a stock photo used by the listing site. 3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books, Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at a time.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, Vol. 2 - Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684837846
• ISBN 13: 9780684837840
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Scribner Edition.
• Condition: Very good-
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History
  • Non-Fiction
  • Autobiography/Biography

About this title

Synopsis

An unquestioned masterpiece of the historian's art, and a towering landmark in the literature of the American Civil War. Volume one of this magnificent three-volume narrative closed with the Confederate reorganization that followed the Seven Days' battles. In volume two, Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville, Douglas Southall Freeman recounts the succession of battles that are among the most celebrated in the history of American warfare. The Confederacy won resounding victories in 1862-63, but they were seldom won easily or at light cost. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who survived -- among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell -- would continue to develop as commanders and as men. In these chapters, a new type of officer arises. He is still learning, still rounding to the full stature of a leader, and combat is still his glory. At second Manassas he is John Hood; at South Mountain he is Robert Rodes; at Sharpsburg he is John Cook, and at Chancellorsville there is a goodly fellowship: Rodes and Ramseur and Pender and Wilcox. But it is Jackson who is the central figure in this volume. The history of the Confederate Army from Cedar Mountain to Sharpsburg and back again to the Rappahannock is, in its finest lines, his military biography. By the spring of 1863, "Old Jack" personifies the mobility, the resolution, and the offensive daring of the Army, and his death is a defeat that cancels all the gains at Chancellorsville.

About the Author

Douglas Southall Freeman was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1886, the son of a Confederate soldier. After receiving a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University at the age of twenty-two, he embarked on a newspaper career. He was named the editor of the Richmond News Leader at the age of twenty-nine, a post he would hold for thirty-four years. In 1915, Freeman was commissioned by Scribner's to write a one-volume biography of Robert E. Lee; twenty years of work later, his four-volume R. E. Lee won the Pulitzer Prize. The three volumes of Lee's Lieutenants took him a relatively modest eight years to complete. He won another Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume biography of George Washington, which he finished only hours before his death in 1953.