R. E. Lee (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Douglas Southall Freeman
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1807-1870
- Setting: Mostly the Confederate States of America
- Principal Characters: General Robert E. Lee, Mary Custis Lee, General Winfield Scott, President Jefferson Davis, Thomas Jonathan (“stonewall”) Jackson, James Longstreet, James Ewell Brown Stuart, Richard Stoddert Ewell, Ambrose Powell Hill, Jubal Anderson Early, General Ulysses S. Grant
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Civil War, War, Military life or service, Peace, Battles, Confederate States of America, Arms or weapons
- Locales: South (U.S.), United States
By heritage, education, profession, and talent Douglas Southall Freeman was ideally fitted to write the definitive biography of Robert Edward Lee. The son of a Confederate veteran, a Doctor of Philosophy in history from Johns Hopkins University, editor of the Richmond News Leader, whose “chief avocation” was “the study of military history” and whose prose style was fascinating, he accepted in 1915 a publisher’s invitation to tell the life story of the South’s best beloved hero. It seems that Douglas Freeman’s ambition to compose such a book was born in 1903, when as a...
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