The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
=" The Lee Book"
The Memoirs Of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
A NEW, ACCURATE AND VALUABLE HISTORY

From the Washington Post, Aug. | 1885,
Messrs. J. M. SToDDART & Co., pub
fishers, of Washington, Philadelphia,
and New York, announce the appear
ance of new work which must at
tract great attention from all persons
who are interested in the events per-
tanning to the history of the great
war.
'sThe Memoirs of Robert e. Lee''
have been in preparation for long
time, but not until this fall have they
taken such definite shape as to be
ready for announcement The book
is complete and full history of the
military career and campaigns of Gen.
Lee, written by Gen. Armistead l.
Long, a graduate of West Point, who
was for four years in intimate asso-
citation with Gen. Lee, a member of
his staff, and for some time his conf
Dental military secretary. General
Long took very full notes during all
the operations and campaigns, from
which he has written clear, anthem
tic, accurate military history. The
work has received the full consent
and approval of the surviving mem
bers of General Lees family, Gen.
GUSTS Lee, in a personal letter, testi-
flying to the fitness of Gen. Long for
the work, and other members of Gen.
Lees family have conveyed important
information, private letters, ETC.,
which add greatly to its value
A part of the book will be devoted
to the personal, domestic and social
history of Gen. Lee, and will include
a large and highly valuable store of
information never before published.
This POI ton of the book will be
chiefly the work of Gen. Marcus j.
Wright, distinguished officer of the
Confederate service, and now the
agent of the Government for the col
lection of Confederate records. Gen.
Wright's wide acquaintance with the
civil and military history of the Con-
federacy will be of great service
Many most interesting sketches,
anecdotes and incidents have been
placed in the possession of the au-
thors by intimate personal friends,
distinguished. officers, public men,
who were associated with General
Lee during almost every year of his
life. There will be appended copi-
GUS index, also an accurate copy OF
the most important military reports
of Gen. Lee on his great campaigns,
together with a very complete state
ment of the forces comprising the
Confederate armies at the most inn
portant epochs. s
The illustrations will comprise por-
traits never before published, re-
production of the recumbent statute
erected over the tomb of Gen. Lee at
Lexington, and the necessary dia-
grams, maps, ETC., describing battles
and movements of troops.
At the suggestion of the authors
the publishers have decided to make
a donation for the benefit of the Con
federate Soldiers Home at Richmond.
In this they follow the lead of Gen.
Grant, whose sincere interest in the
welfare of this institution was shown
in contributing to it his cordial, hearty
sympathy and substantial pecuniary
donation. The home has been as
sisted to the extent of thousands OF
dollars by the Grand Army of the
Republic of the North, and it was an
eminently proper thing that these
two Confederate officers should them
selves testify their interest and sym
pathy by contributing share of the
proceeds of the sales of the book
This idea has been received with favor
by the gentlemen in charge of the
institution, and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
Governor of Virginia, has formally
accepted and approved the sugges-
ton. The plan of the book has been
submitted for the inspection of 8
great number of leading Southern
gentlemen, all of whom have cordial
ly Endorsed and testified over then
signatures to the value of the work
at the present time. The Governors
of number of Southern States have
given their approval and have recon-
mended it to the people of their re
spective States. The book will be
published in one volume, about sever
hundred pages, printed and bound il
the best style, and will be ready fol
delivery in the early fall. Messrs
Stoddard & Co., have also made ar
rangements for its publication il