| Description |
xvi, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
The idol of his soldiers and the hope of his country : Lee and the Confederate people -- The best possible outcome one could hope for : Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia in the 1862 Maryland campaign -- If the enemy is there, we must attack him : Lee and the second day at Gettysburg -- The Army of Northern Virginia in May 1864 : Lee and a crisis of high command -- The making of a hero and the persistence of a legend : Stonewall Jackson during the Civil War and in popular history -- The undoing of an early confederate hero : John Bankhead Magruder at the Seven Days -- Scapegoat in victory : James Longstreet and the Battle of Second Manassas -- Confederate corps leadership on the first day at Gettysburg : A.P. Hill and Richard S. Ewell in a difficult debut -- Revisiting the 1862 and 1864 valley campaigns : Stonewall Jackson and Jubal Early in the Shenandoah -- Jubal A. Early, the lost cause, and Civil War history : a persistent legacy -- A widow and her soldier : LaSalle Corbell Pickett as the author of George E. Pickett's Civil War letters -- How familiarity bred success : military campaigns and leaders in Ken Burn's The Civil War -- Battlefields, the lost cause, and the legacy of the Civil War. |
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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 -- Military leadership.
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Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia -- History.
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Generals -- Confederate States of America -- History.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
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| ISBN |
0807122866 (alk. paper) |
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