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1.
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862
Book by Joseph L. Harsh; Kent State University Press, 1998
Subjects: Confederate States Of America--History, Military, Confederate States Of America--Military Policy, Davis, Jefferson--1808-1889, Lee, Robert E--(Robert Edward)--1807-1870--Military Leadership, Strategy--History--19th Century, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
...America Military policy. 2. Lee, Robert E. Robert Edward , 1807-1870 Military leadership. 3. Strategy History 19th century. 4. Davis...the character of the war": The Ascent of Lee, to June 1 , 1862 47 Lees...
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Lee & His Army in Confederate History
Book by Gary W. Gallagher; University of North Carolina Press, 2001
Subjects: Confederate States Of America--Army, Confederate States Of America--History, Lee, Robert E--(Robert Edward)--1807-1870--Military Leadership, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
...Gary W. Lee and his army...1. Lee, Robert E. Robert Edward , 1807 1870 Military leadership. 2. United...Confederate military history...presented Lee as the most...took superb leadership by Abraham...Modern War?: Robert E. Lee as Confederate...
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Lee Moves North: Robert E. Lee on the Offensive
Book by Michael A. Palmer; John Wiley & Sons, 1999
Subjects: Command Of Troops, Lee, Robert E--(Robert Edward)--1807-1870--Military Leadership, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
...alk. paper) 1. Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870-Military leadership. 2. Command of troops. 3. United States...Acknowledgments 179 Index 183 Preface ROBERT E. LEE REMAINS one of the most enigmatic and con...
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Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History
Book by Alan T. Nolan; University of North Carolina Press, 1991
Subjects: Generals--Southern States--Biography--History And Criticism, Generals--United States--Biography--History And Criticism, Lee, Robert E--(Robert Edward)--1807-1870, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography
...Robert E. Robert Edward , 1807-1870. 2. United States-- History--Civil...90-48296 CIP FRONTISPIECE Robert E. Lee, 1865 Library of Congress FOR JANE...tradition is historical. Born in 1807, a Virginia aristocrat of the plantation...distinction from the United States Military Academy in 1829. He married Mary...George Washington Custis Lee, Robert Edward Lee, Jr., and William Henry Fitzhugh...the disunionist Southern political leadership. As will be discussed in Chapter 3...
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The Army of Northern Virginia: Lee's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865
Book by Philip Katcher; Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003
Subjects: Confederate States Of America--Army Of Northern Virginia--History, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental Histories
...good equipment, high morale, and fine leadership. But these separate elements are only...118, 160, 164, 186, 236, 300, 310. Robert Hunt Library: 22, 59, 85, 125, 145...ARMY 229 ROBERT E.LEE 230 THE SENIOR COMMAND...348 Key to Maps Military Units-Sizes Army Movements...president, and the well-known orator Edward Everett of Massachusetts for vice president...
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"For the Good of the Cause and the Protection of the Border": The Service of the Indiana Legion in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Journal article by John Michael Foster Jr.; Civil War History, Vol. 55, 2009
Subjects: Armed Forces--History, Armed Forces--Powers and duties, Armed Forces--Reserves, Civil defense--Management, Indiana--History, Indiana--Military aspects, Indiana--Social aspects, Military campaigns--History, Military reserves--History, Military reserves--Powers and duties, Militias--History, Militias--Powers and duties, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States. Union Army--Officials and employees
...Scott, ed., Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, and Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Wilcox (Kent: Kent State Univ. Press...First National Pastime" 175; Cannelton Reporter, June 20, 1861; Minute Book, "Middle Fork Home Guards," box 10, ILP...Brigade, for instance, were armed with .69 caliber altered United States percussion muskets, .57 caliber Springfield rifles, .54...62.) "Citizens of Harrison" petition n.d, box 10, ILP; History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, 705. The Militia...requests, Mann was finally granted his resignation in January 1865. Terrell, Report, 3:532. (65.) Love, Report, 51. (66...
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Why Was the Confederacy Defeated? Alan Farmer Explains Why the North Won the American Civil War
Journal article by Alan Farmer; History Review, 2005
Subjects: Confederate States of America. Army. Northern Virginia--Analysis, Davis, Jefferson, Generals--Quotations, Lee, Robert E. (American general)--Quotations, Southern United States--Social aspects, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Analysis, United States history--Analysis, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...Farmer On 10 April 1865, General Robert E. Lee, having just surrendered to General...first their labour and eventually their military manpower into a Union asset. Nevertheless...not inevitably a Lost Cause. Political Leadership Superior leadership is often seen as...1866) and in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1), spectacular offensive victories...
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Disaffection, Persistence, and Nation: Some Directions in Recent Scholarship on the Confederacy
Journal article by Gary W. Gallagher; Civil War History, Vol. 55, 2009
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Confederate States of America--Military aspects, Confederate States of America--Portrayals, History teachers--Criticism and interpretation, History teachers--Works, The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Thomas, Emory M.--Criticism and interpretation, Thomas, Emory M.--Works, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, Virginia--History, Virginia--Military aspects, Virginia--Social aspects, Williams, David (American writer)--Criticism and interpretation, Williams, David (American writer)--Works, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works
...East Tennessee and the Civil War, 1860-1870 (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press...Press, 1998), quotation 233-34; Daniel E. Sutherland, ed., Guerrillas, Unionists...Univ. Press, 200l); John C. Inscoe and Robert C. Kenzer, eds., Enemies of the Country...titles devoted to social, political, and military turbulence in the Confederacy include...against the Confederacy: Essays on Leadership and Loyalty (Westport, Conn.: Praeger...2007), 91-120; Gary W. Gallagher, Lee and His Army in Confederate History...Secession to Commemoration, ed. by Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew...
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Measures of War: A Quantitative Examination of the Civil War's Destructiveness in the Confederacy
Journal article by Paul F. Paskoff; Civil War History, Vol. 54, 2008
Subjects: Civil war--Military aspects, Civil war--Social aspects, Civil war--United States, Confederate States of America--History, Confederate States of America--Military aspects, Historical research, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Military aspects, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Military aspects
...the rolling stock had come from the U.S. Military Rail Roads. (29) But the larger significance...facilitated use of the OR. These include: E. B. Long, with Barbara Long, The Civil...Station: Texas A M Univ. Press, 1993) and Robert E. Veselka, The Courthouse Square in Texas...Implements and Machinery from 1860 to 1870 in War Counties and Nonwar Counties Total...
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The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been
Journal article by Daniel E. Sutherland; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been (Book)--Book reviews
...States of America: What Might Have Been. by Daniel E. Sutherland The Confederate States of America: What...complete. Sherman is sidelined for a crucial ten months. Robert E. Lee loses at Sharpsburg; but Thomas J. Jackson survives Chancellorsville...
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Who Cares about Robert E. Lee?
Magazine article by Daniel Mark Epstein; New Criterion, Vol. 26, September 2007
Subjects: Generals--Biography, Lee, Robert E. (American general)--Biography
...reveal the true figure within. Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) falls into this third category, an...Southall Freemans Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert E. Lee (1934). Freeman concluded that...West Point. He longed to serve in the military, in emulation of his heroes, Lafayette...the highest rank at West Point, the leadership role as "Adjutant of the Corps." To...
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Collateral Damage: The Civil War Only Enhanced George Whitman's Soldierly Satisfaction; for His Brother Walt, However, the Horrors Halted an Outpouring of Great Poetry
Magazine article by Robert Roper; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Winter 2009
Subjects: Poets--Family, Poets--Social aspects, Poets--Works, Sibling relations--Evaluation, Soldiers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Soldiers--Records and correspondence, Soldiers--Social aspects, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Influence, Whitman, George--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Whitman, George--Records and correspondence, Whitman, George--Social aspects, Whitman, Walt--Family, Whitman, Walt--Social aspects, Whitman, Walt--Works
...the Horrors Halted an Outpouring of Great Poetry. by Robert Roper On May 16, 1864, George Washington Whitman...several accounts of his younger brothers extraordinary military career; there is understandably a tone of pride in these...
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Warhorses of the U.S. Civil War
Magazine article by Gervase Phillips; History Today, Vol. 55, December 2005
Subjects: Cavalry--Usage, Horses--Usage, Lee, Robert E. (American general)--Behavior, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...again and again by Sheridans troopers. Lee was finally cornered and forced to capitulate...battle, enjoyed gentler retirements. Robert E. Lees grey Traveler became the pet of...the extremes of climate. In the name of military necessity, horses were expendable. In...Americas Civil War. FOR FURTHER READING Edward Longacre, Lincolns Cavalrymen: A History...
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Glorious Dust: The Posthumous Masterwork of an Influential Black Historian Tells How Slavery Itself Undermined the Confederacy
Magazine article by Robert Roper; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Winter 2007
Subjects: Art historians--Works, Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Black studies--Social aspects, Blacks--Social aspects, Blacks--Study and teaching, Educational programs--Evaluation, Nonfiction--Criticism and interpretation, Robinson, Armstead L.--Criticism and interpretation, Robinson, Armstead L.--Works, Slavery--Political aspects, Slavery--Social aspects, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Portrayals, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Portrayals
...Itself Undermined the Confederacy. by Robert Roper In the spring of 2005, when...politics." Too often its positions of leadership have been granted to nonscholars, or...manpower freed Southern whites to report for military service at the aforementioned rate of...other two being Carter G. Woodson and W. E. B. Du Bois), wrote a monograph, "The...of tactics employed so successfully by Lee and Jackson in the Virginia theater...
5.
Ferment on the Frontier: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers
Magazine article by Branley Allan Branson, Mary Lou Branson; World and I, Vol. 13, February 1998
Subjects: African American soldiers--History, United States history, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...This led to a complete military reorganization in 1866...Taking the field Col. Edward Hatch was ordered to...was renewed early in 1870, principally because...a new command, and leadership of the Tenth Cavalry...southern depots, some of them said, `Niggers...many years later that Americans finally commemorated...1866-1900, University of Colorado Press, Boulder...Military Experience in the American West, Liveright Press...
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British Take on Our Civil War
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 1, 2009
Subjects: Keegan, John, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...contrast, had a first-class military mind, yet shrank from delivering...The authors assessment of Robert E. Lee will not please the generals...REVIEWED BY JOHN M. TAYLOR Photo of the book cover THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: A MILITARY HISTORY...
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Divided Marylanders Square Off
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 17, 2005
Subjects: Confederate States of America. Army
...distinguish it from its predecessor. In June 1863, at the start of Gen. Robert E. Lees second invasion of the North, the 2nd fought another "Battle of...Museum Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks was no match for Stonewall. U.S. Army Military History Institute
3.
Solving the Riddle of Ulysses Grant; He Was Not a Military Genius, but He Won with Determination
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 14, 2006
Subjects: Confederate States of America. Army. Northern Virginia
...Riddle of Ulysses Grant; He Was Not a Military Genius, but He Won with Determination...attempt to decipher the "silent soldier" is Edward Longacre, a prominent Civil War historian...east to take on his greatest challenge, Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia. To a...tired of hearing dire warnings of what Lee might do; he, Grant, would set the tone...
4.
Andersonville Warden Wirz Tried, Hanged for War Crimes; Villain or Confederate Martyr? Debate Continues
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 4, 2006
Subjects: Confederate States of America. Andersonville Prison, Soldiers, War crimes, Wirz, Henry
...family had grown with the addition of Cora Lee Wirz, born before they left Kentucky...battlefield and breveted to captain. Because his military service was limited by his injuries, he...grandsons living in Louisiana: Perrin, Robert, William and John Watkins; some are expected...
5.
Fractious South Became Its Own Enemy; Secession Imposed, Author Finds
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 13, 2002
Subjects: Confederate States of America
...was spent at war, the book has to be in part also a military history, but Mr. Davis in his wise sensitivity to the...probably the most conventional part of the book. In them, Robert E. Lee reigns as the greatest Confederate general. Mr. Davis...
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Virginia , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Richmond became the Confederate capital. Robert E. Lee entered the military service of the Souths new government...Mahone . Radical sway was ended. In 1870, after the Virginia assembly had ratified...adopted. With the exception of Prince Edward County, where schools remained closed...
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Florida , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia...occupation took place in 1821, and Andrew Jackson was appointed military governor. Florida, with its present boundaries, was organized...
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Confederacy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...events leading up to secession and for the military operations of the Confederacy in the conflict...departures from the U.S. Constitution, e.g., the president and vice president were...and a few brilliant commanders, notably Robert E. Lee. For the South, less populous than the...
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Civil War , in U.S. History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the North and Jefferson Davis and Robert Toombs in the South. With the Kansas-Nebraska...11-state Confederacy. In the first important military campaign of the war untrained Union troops...soldiers led by Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston in the first battle of...Apr. July, 1862), in which Robert E. Lee succeeded the wounded Johnston as commander...State Seward. Charles Francis Adams (1807 86) at London and John Bigelow at Paris...
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West Virginia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WEST VIRGINIA E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and...July 11), Corricks Ford (July 13), and Carnifax Ferry (Sept. 10). Gen. Robert E. Lees attempt to rally the Confederate forces ended in defeat at Cheat...
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