Robert E. Lee, the Southerner
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781402169304
Subjects: Robert Edward Lee,memoir,biography,life,the Southerner,Thomas Nelson Page; Biography & Autobiography / Military
First sentence: ON a plateau about a mile from the south bank of the Potomac River, in the old Colonial County of Westmoreland, in what used to be known as the "Northern Neck," that portion of Virginia which Charles II. in his heedlessness once undertook to grant to his friends and favorites, Culpeper and Arlington, stands a massive brick mansion, one of the most impressive piles of brick on this continent, which even in its dilapidation looks as though it might have been built by Elizabeth and bombarded by Cromwell.