Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman

'Manassas to Malvern Hill' is the first volume of a three-volume work.

The narrative illumines the rise of 'Stonewall' Jackson and traces his progress in the Shenandoah Valley campaign and into Richmond amid the acclaim of the South, accompanies him through the failures during the Seven Days, and then leaves him, with the new army entirely organized, in the center of the stage of history.

Johnston, the emergence and failure of a number of military charlatans, and the first display of ability on the part of some new men at a time when the organization developed at Manassas collapsed at Seven Pines. Freeman describes the rise and fall of General Beauregard, the growing friction between Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. In this first volume, 'Manassas to Malvern Hill,' Dr. Lee as they came forward on the stage of war. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of history, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.Folding map at rear of volume 3.Īll unquestioned masterpiecc of the historian's art, and a towering landmark in the literature of the American Civil War.'Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command' is the most colorful and popular of all of Douglas Southall Freeman's works it is generally considered the most penetrating study ever written of military personalities and tactics during the American Civil War.

Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman