Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command, Volume 1, Manassas to Malvern Hill (1942)

by Douglas Southall Freeman

Series: Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (Vol. 1)

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This 3 volume set is an elaborate and detailed account of the generals in the Confederate States of America. The 3 volumes run in what the author breaks into the components by battle campaigns. Manassas to Malvern Hill in volume 1, Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville in volume 2 and Gettysburg to Appomatox in volume 3. These volumes include many pictures of the legendary generals as well as battlefield diagrams.… (more)

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Freeman (Lee's most admiring biographer) takes on detailed history of Army of Northern Virginia. Not surprisingly, only Lee and Jackson are above reproach. (

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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command, Volume 1, Manassas to Malvern Hill

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1942

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Manassas, Virginia, USA

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American Civil War (1861 | 1865)

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(Foreword) After completing in 1934 a life of General R.E. Lee, the writer began to collect material for a biography of a great American of an earlier period but found that mentally it was not easy to leave the struggle about which one had been writing for twenty years and more.

He would go at once.

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This work is the first volume of Freeman's 3-volume history of the Army of Northern Virginia. Please do not combine it with the omnibus version, or with either of the later volumes.

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This 3 volume set is an elaborate and detailed account of the generals in the Confederate States of America. The 3 volumes run in what the author breaks into the components by battle campaigns. Manassas to Malvern Hill in volume 1, Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville in volume 2 and Gettysburg to Appomatox in volume 3. These volumes include many pictures of the legendary generals as well as battlefield diagrams.

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