Lee's Lieutenants, Volume I: Manassas to Malvern Hill - Softcover

Douglas Southall Freeman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684187485 ISBN 13: 9780684187488

Publisher: Scribner, 1986

Synopsis

1970 Charles Scribner jumbo trade paperback, Douglas Southall Freeman (Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, Vol. 3). 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.

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Review:

When Douglas Southall Freeman's original three-volume version of Lee's Lieutenants appeared in the 1940s, it marked a high point in Civil War history, and the books were lauded not only for their scholarship but for their elegant writing. This monument of Civil War literature has been skillfully abridged by one of the most noted present-day Civil War historians, Stephen W. Sears. The new one-volume abridgement retains the core material of the original and makes Freeman's fine writing available in a much more accessible format.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0684187485
• ISBN 13: 9780684187488
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 773