"Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command" is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee.The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who commanded -- among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell -- developed as leaders and men. "Lee's Lieutenants" follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation. Accessible at last in a one-volume edition abridged by noted Civil War historian Stephen W. Sears, "Lee's Lieutenants" is essential reading for all Civil War buffs, students of war, and admirers of the historian's art as practiced at its very highest level.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Maps
Introduction: James M. McPherson
Foreword: Douglas Southall Freeman
Editorial Note: Stephen W. Sears
Dramatis Personæ
Opening Guns
Beauregard's Battlefield
Beauregard's Star Wanes
Johnston Passes a Dark Winter
Challenge on the Peninsula
Seven Pines
To Defend Richmond
Guarding the Valley
Jackson Launches His Offensive
Victory in the Valley
Struggle for Richmond
Richmond Relieved
Lessons of the Seven Days
Facing a New Threat
Return to Manassas
Across the Potomac
Desperate Hours on the Antietam
Rebuilding an Army
Battle at Fredericksburg
In Winter Quarters
Facing a New Campaign
Jackson Gets His Greatest Orders
Victory and Tragedy at Chancellorsville
Renewal and Reorganization
Across the Potomac Again
Two Days of Battle
Gettysburg and Its Cost
Challenges for Longstreet, Hill, and Stuart
Tests and Trials of Winter
The Wilderness and Spotsylvania
Richmond Threatened
New Fronts, New Battles
The Darkening Autumn of Command
In a Ring of Iron
The Last March
Notes
Bibliography
Index
