Lee in the shadow of Washington
By: Richard B. McCaslin.
Series: Conflicting worlds
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870.; Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870 -- Sources.; Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Influence.; Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography.; United States. Army -- Biography.; Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
Genres: Sources.; Biography.
Description: "In his thematic biography of the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, McCaslin locates the sources of Lee's devotion to Washington and shows how this bond affected his performance as a general in battle. He argues that Lee used the strategy of attrition to attempt to persuade the North to quit just as Washington had wearied the British.

But reliance on Washington as a role model led to tragic irony: in the 1864 campaign it was Lee's Confederates who became trapped like the British in the Yorktown campaign. After his surrender, Lee could no longer emulate Washington the revolutionary, and he became the president of a small college that bore Washington's name and surrounded himself with mementos of his hero."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Mystic Chords of Memory; title: A Revolutionary Heritage 13; title: 2 The Old Revolutionary Blood; title: Coming of Age in the Army 37; title: 3 Granny Lee; title: Secession and Obscurity 66; title: 4 Audacity Personified; title: Northern Virginia in 1862 95; title: 5 A Very Bold Game; title: Showdown at Gettysburg 138; title: 6 Children of the Revolution; title: Fighting for Time, 1864-1865 166; title: 7 Washington without His Reward; title: After the Civil War 193; title: Epilogue; title: In the Shadow of Washington 225; title: Bibliography 235; title: Index 253.