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Lees Lieutenants Volume 3: A Study in Command, Gettysburg to Appomattox
Contributor(s): Freeman, Douglas Southall (Author)
ISBN: 1451627343     ISBN-13: 9781451627343
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
OUR PRICE:   $47.49  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military - United States
- History | Military - Strategy
Dewey: 973.73
Physical Information: 2.03" H x 6" W x 9" (2.89 lbs) 912 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
 
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Publisher Description:
An unquestioned masterpiece of the historian's art, and a towering landmark in the literature of the American Civil War.

In Gettysburg to Appomattox, Douglas Southall Freeman concludes his monumental three-volume study of Lee's command of the Confederacy, a dramatic history that brings to vivid life the men in that command and the part each played in this country's most tragic struggle.

Volume three continues the stirring account of Lee's army, from the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, to the tragic inward collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of Lee's subordinates and the operations in which they participated, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons that were to be learned from the story of the Army of Northern Virginia and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation.

As in the first two volumes, portrait photographs, military maps, several appendixes, and a bibliography add to the clarity and richness of the book. The complete three-volume study, Lee's Lieutenants, is a classic touchstone in the literature of American biography, and in all the literature of war.

Contributor Bio(s): Freeman, Douglas Southall: - Douglas Southall Freeman, the son of a Confederate soldier, was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1886. He was commissioned to write a one-volume biography of Lee in 1915, but his research and writings over two decades produced four large volumes. Freeman won another Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume definitive biography of George Washington. He died in 1953.