Southern Classics: Franklin Library: ROBERT E LEE: CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR GENERAL

Description: Southern Classics Library leather edition of "Lee: An abridgement in one volume by Richard Harwell of the four-volume "R.E. Lee," by Douglas Southall Freeman, published in 1982. Bound in a brown leather, the book has pale yellow moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition----except for an attached Southern Registry bookplate on inside moire silk fly leaf.. Robert Edward Lee, who lived from 1807- 1870, was an American general known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865. Drop dead handsome, RE Lee was the son of Revolutionary War officer Henry "Light Horse Harry Lee." He was a top graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. Lee had no vices; he did not drink or smoke or gamble or chase women. He did not read novels or plays. He did not own slaves nor believe in slavery, but he did believe that the Negro, "in the present stage of his development," could not be considered the equal of the white man. He believed absolutely in God. He was the most beloved man in either army. Lee was five feet ten inches tall, white-bearded, ram-rod straight, with broad shoulders, a thick hairy chest---a man's man---but beloved of every woman who met him. Lee had distinguished himself during the Mexican-American War, served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and married Mary Custis, granddaughter of George Washington. When Virginia declared its secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his personal desire for the country to remain intact and despite an offer of a senior Union command. During the first year of the Civil War, Lee served as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson David. Once he took command of the main field army in 1862 he soon emerged as a shrewd tactician and battlefield commander, winning most of his battles, all against far superior Union armies. Lee's strategic foresight was more questionable, and both of his major offensives into Union territory ended in defeat. Lee's aggressive tactics, which resulted in high casualties at a time when the Confederacy had a shortage of manpower, have come under criticism in recent years. Lee surrendered his entire army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. After the war, Lee served as President of what is now Washington and Lee University. Lee became the great Southern hero of the War, a postwar icon of the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" to some. 601 pages, including an Index. I offer Combined shipping.

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