Douglas Southall Freeman

Lee's Lieutenants (eBook, ePUB)

A Study in Command

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 912
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743213462
• Artikelnr.: 37843302

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Maps
Introduction: James M. McPherson
Foreword: Douglas Southall Freeman
Editorial Note: Stephen W. Sears
Dramatis Personæ
1. Opening Guns
2. Beauregard's Battlefield
3. Beauregard's Star Wanes
4. Johnston Passes a Dark Winter
5. Challenge on the Peninsula
6. Seven Pines
7. To Defend Richmond
8. Guarding the Valley
9. Jackson Launches His Offensive
10. Victory in the Valley
11. Struggle for Richmond
12. Richmond Relieved
13. Lessons of the Seven Days
14. Facing a New Threat
15. Return to Manassas
16. Across the Potomac
17. Desperate Hours on the Antietam
18. Rebuilding an Army
19. Battle at Fredericksburg
20. In Winter Quarters
21. Facing a New Campaign
22. Jackson Gets His Greatest Orders
23. Victory and Tragedy at Chancellorsville
24. Renewal and Reorganization
25. Across the Potomac Again
26. Two Days of Battle
27. Gettysburg and Its Cost
28. Challenges for Longstreet, Hill, and Stuart
29. Tests and Trials of Winter
30. The Wilderness and Spotsylvania
31. Richmond Threatened
32. New Fronts, New Battles
33. The Darkening Autumn of Command
34. In a Ring of Iron
35. The Last March
Notes
Bibliography
Index