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Author
Publisher
Konecky & Konecky
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
471 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recollections and Letters discusses not only Lee's great military mind, but also his advocacy of peace to allow the south to rejoin the Union with dignity and honor and as President of Washington College, a driving force to create a viable educational system in the South.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1864, President Lincoln feared that he might not be able to save the Union. The Army of the Potomac had performed poorly over the previous two years, and many Northerners were understandably critical of the war effort. Lincoln assumed he'd lose the November election, and he firmly believed a Democratic successor would seek peace immediately, spelling an end to the Union. A Fire in the Wilderness tells the story of that perilous time...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
c2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Robert E. Lee seemed destined for greatness. His father was a Revolutionary War hero and at West Point he graduated second in his class! In 1861, when the Southern states seceded from the Union, Lee was offered the opportunity to command the Union forces. However, even though he was against the war, his loyalty to his home state of Virginia wouldn't let him fight for the North. Despite the South's ultimate defeat, General Robert E. Lee remains one...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who...
Author
Publisher
Cider Mill Press Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The poignant, personal, and unbelievably true story of Mrs. Robert E. Lee and General Montgomery Meigs, and the founding of the Arlington National Cemetery, in the midst of America's greatest struggle--the Civil War.
Mrs. Lee’s Rose Garden is the intensely personal story of Arlington National Cemetery’s earliest history as seen through the lives of three people during the outbreak of the Civil War: Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee,...