Audacity personified
Subtitle: the generalship of Robert E. Lee
By: edited by Peter S. Carmichael.
Contributors: Carmichael, Peter S.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870 -- Military leadership.; Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography.; Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Peter S. Carmichael has assembled a formidable array of Civil War historians who rigorously return to Lee's own words and actions in interpreting the war in Virginia. This is the first collective volume to scrutinize specific aspects of the general's military career." "Falling into neither the pro- nor anti-Lee camp, Audacity Personified challenges long-standing beliefs accepted since Douglas Southall Freeman's influential biography of Lee was published seventy years ago. These diverse visions of the great Confederate general move beyond cliche, illuminating Lee's career with fresh interpretations."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lee's search for the battle of annihilation / Peter S. Carmichael; title: The siege of Richmond was raised : Lee's intentions in the Seven Days Battles / William J. Miller; title: Lee, Grant, and prescience in the Overland Campaign / Gordon C. Rhea; title: The great tycoon forges a staff system / Robert E.L. Krick; title: The general and the governor : Robert E. Lee and Zebulon B. Vance / Max R. Williams; title: I rely upon your good judgment and skill : the command partnership of Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston in 1865 / Mark L. Bradley.