Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command( 3 Vols. set)

Part Two Of Two Parts

After completing a biography of Robert E. Lee, the author wondered whether holding the light on the Confederate general had put "in undeserved shadow the many excellent soldiers of his army." As he notes in this book, "Stonewall Jackson undoubtedly won a permanent place in the history of American wars; Longstreet and Jeb Stuart probably have; but at least a score of other able officers rapidly are being forgotten. Had so modest a man as General Lee ever foreseen this, he would have lamented any presentation of his own services that might depreciate, even by silence, those of his comrades in arms."

"Freeman introduces us to the army of Northern Virginia's high command as if they were old friends." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

When Douglas Southall Freeman's original three-volume version of Lee's Lieutenants appeared in the 1940s, it marked a high point in Civil War history, and the books were lauded not only for their scholarship but for their elegant writing. This monument of Civil War literature has been skillfully abridged by one of the most noted present-day Civil War historians, Stephen W. Sears. The new one-volume abridgement retains the core material of the original and makes Freeman's fine writing available in a much more accessible format.

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