Dec 27, 2009
America’s Robert E. Lee | America’s Robert E. Lee
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Steele Commager
- First Published: 1951
- Time of Work: 1807–1865
- Setting: Virginia, St. Louis, Texas, and Mexico
- Principal Characters: Robert E. Lee, Mary Anne Custis Lee, General Winfield Scott, General Thomas “Stonewall”
Jackson, Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Civil War, War, Military life or service, Soldiers, Armies, Biography, Confederate States of America, Generals, Mexican-American War
- Locales: Virginia, St. Louis, MO, Mexico, Texas
Form and Content
In America’s Robert E. Lee, Henry Steele Commager
presents a brief but extremely exciting sketch of the life of one of
the United States’ outstanding figures. The author focuses on
the conflict that Robert E. Lee had to resolve in his own heart
between his loyalty to the United States and his loyalty to his native
state of Virginia. Lynd Ward provides an abundance of illustrations,
both in color and in black and white, to depict important episodes in
the life of Lee. These drawings and paintings begin with Lee as a boy
at Stratford, the family...
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