The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee - A Da Capo Paperback
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This monumental contribution to the literature of the Civil War brings together Lee's official correspondenceletters, orders, dispatches, battle reportswith his touching letters to his family, thus providing a previously unavailable view of Lee's life during the war. From the more than 6,000 items, the editors have chosen to reprint many letters in full for the first time, so that Lee is seen complete, self-revealed, in all his dignity and purpose. Short narratives connect each sectionon the mobilization of Virginia, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and the siege of Petersburg and Appomattox. Sponsored by the Virginia Civil War Commission to commemorate the Civil War Centennial, this expert work of scholarship dramatizes Lee's life as only his own correspondence could. As Lee himself said: ”Letters are good representatives of our minds. They certainly present a good criterion for judging of the character of the individual.”
Book information
ISBN: | 9780306802829 |
Publisher: | Da Capo Books |
Imprint: | Da Capo Press |
Pub date: | 21 Mar 1987 |
DEWEY: | 973.7 |
DEWEY edition: | 19 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 1012 |
Weight: | 500g |
Height: | 216mm |
Width: | 137mm |
Spine width: | 53mm |