Lee's Lieutenants Third Volume Abridged

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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. [...] 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.

Über den Autor

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 [...] died in 1953.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Maps

Introduction: James M. McPherson

Foreword: Douglas Southall Freeman

Editorial Note: Stephen W. Sears

Dramatis Personæ

• Opening Guns
• Beauregard's Battlefield
• Beauregard's Star Wanes
• Johnston Passes a Dark Winter
• Challenge on the Peninsula
• Seven Pines
• To Defend Richmond
• Guarding the Valley
• Jackson Launches His Offensive
• Victory in the Valley
• Struggle for Richmond
• Richmond Relieved
• Lessons of the Seven Days
• Facing a New Threat
• Return to Manassas
• Across the Potomac
• Desperate Hours on the Antietam
• Rebuilding an Army
• Battle at Fredericksburg
• In Winter Quarters
• Facing a New Campaign
• Jackson Gets His Greatest Orders
• Victory and Tragedy at Chancellorsville
• Renewal and Reorganization
• Across the Potomac Again
• Two Days of Battle
• Gettysburg and Its Cost
• Challenges for Longstreet, Hill, and Stuart
• Tests and Trials of Winter
• The Wilderness and Spotsylvania
• Richmond Threatened
• New Fronts, New Battles
• The Darkening Autumn of Command
• In a Ring of Iron
• The Last March

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2001
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	No Series
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780684859798
ISBN-10:	0684859793
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Freeman, Douglas Southall
Hersteller:	Scribner No Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 155 x 54 mm
Von/Mit:	Douglas Southall Freeman
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.04.2001
Gewicht:	1,545 kg