Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-65

ISBN 10: 0807119571 / ISBN 13: 9780807119570

Edité par LSU Press, 1994

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Titre : Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of ...

Éditeur : LSU Press

Date d'édition : 1994

Reliure : Paperback

Etat : Very Good

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An important primary source for eighty years, Lee's Dispatches is now once again available to Civil War scholars, students, and enthusiasts. When first published in 1914, these letters, written between June 2, 1862, and April 1, 1865, put Lee's strategy in clearer perspective and shed new light on certain of his moves that had been in dispute.As Douglas Southall Freeman states in the Introduction, every written line of Lee's was a lesson in war. For example, the letters reveal that in 1862, when plans for the defense of Richmond were under review, the Confederate high command considered but rejected a bold proposal to strengthen Stonewall Jackson's army in the Shenandoah Valley, embark on a vigorous offensive campaign against the North, and, if necessary, abandon Richmond.Together these 215 dispatches offer a portrait of Lee that can otherwise be glimpsed only by sifting through hundreds of other letters scattered through the ponderous volumes of the Official Records. They fill many important details about the leadership of the South's greatest general, especially about his close and always cooperative relationships with President Davis.

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Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953) was editor of the Richmond News Leader and a major American biographer. He was the author of R.E. Lee, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1934, Lee's Lieutenants, and George Washington, for which he was posthumously awarded a second Pulitzer Prize.
Grady McWhiney is Lyndon Baines Johnson Professor of American History at Texas Christian University, coauthor of Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics of the Southern Heritage, and author of Southerners and Other Americans and Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat.