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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-100807819565

ISBN-139780807819562

eBay Product ID (ePID)955570

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Book TitleLee Considered : General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History

Number of Pages243 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1991

TopicUnited States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military / United States, Military

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorAlan T. Nolan

Book SeriesCivil War America Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN90-048296

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal973.7/092

SynopsisOf all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed slavery, and a brilliant military leader whose exploits sustained the Confederate cause.Alan Nolan explodes these and other assumptions about Lee and the war through a rigorous reexamination of familiar and long-available historical sources, including Lee's personal and official correspondence and the large body of writings about Lee. Looking at this evidence in a critical way, Nolan concludes that there is little truth to the dogmas traditionally set forth about Lee and the war., In a careful reexamination of the historical evidence, Alan Nolan explodes many longstanding myths about Robert E. Lee and the Civil War., Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed slavery, and a brilliant military leader whose exploits sustained the Confederate cause. Alan Nolan explodes these and other assumptions about Lee and the war through a rigorous reexamination of familiar and long-available historical sources, including Lee's personal and official correspondence and the large body of writings about Lee. Looking at this evidence in a critical way, Nolan concludes that there is little truth to the dogmas traditionally set forth about Lee and the war.

LC Classification NumberE467.1.L4N66 1991