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description: Following the immediate critical success of Lees Dispatches author Douglas Southall Freeman was approached by New York publisher Charles Scribners Sons and invited to write a biography of Robert E. Lee. He accepted and his research of Lee was he evaluated and cataloged every item about Lee and reviewed records at West Point the War Department and material in private collections. In narrating the generals Civil War years he used what came to be known as the fog of war techniqueproviding readers only the limited information that Lee himself had at a given moment. This helped convey the confusion of war that Lee experienced as well as the processes by which Lee grappled with problems and made decisions.R. E. A Biography was published in four volumes in 1934 and 1935. In its book review The New York Times declared it Lee complete for all time. Historian Dumas Malone wrote Great as my personal expectations were the realization far surpassed them. In 1935 Freeman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography.Freemans R. E. A Biography remains the authoritative study on the Confederate general.
language: English
title: R. E. Lee:  A Biography Volume III
publisher: None