Lee of Virginia (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Douglas Southall Freeman
- First Published: 1958
- Time of Work: 1807–1870
- Setting: Virginia, New York, Georgia, St. Louis, Texas, Mexico, Washington, D.C., Kentucky, Kansas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Maryland
- Principal Characters: Robert E. Lee, Ann Carter Lee, Mary Anne Randolph Custis Lee, Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, Lieutenant General James Longstreet, General Ambrose Powell Hill, Major General James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart, General Ulysses S. Grant
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, South or Southerners, Leadership, Ethics, Military life or service, Biography
- Locales: Virginia, New York, Kentucky, St. Louis, MO, Mexico, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Maryland, Kansas, Texas
Form and Content
In Lee of Virginia, Douglas Southall Freeman presents the story of Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy’s greatest military leader. Arranged chronologically, each of the book’s twenty-four chapters is organized around and given a title associated with the major events of Lee’s life. The book begins with his birth and ends with his death, at the age of sixty-three, in his beloved home state of Virginia. An interesting theme of Freeman’s work, not explicitly stated but certainly implied in the title, is the importance of Virginia to Lee and Lee to...
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