Selasa, 19 September 2017

Blue and Gray: Robert E. Lee’s Conflicted Loyalties

Robert E. Lee’s decision to leave the U.S. Army and cast his lot with Virginia has inspired a great deal of examination. The most influential writer to grapple with this topic has been Douglas Southall Freeman, whose four-volume R.E. Lee: A Biography (1934-36) remains by far the most detailed reckoning of Lee’s life. Freeman described …

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