Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee And The Civil War

Robert E. Lee and the Civil War

Plot

This is a narrative life, told in more dramatic style than has been previously attempted, but based firmly on eyewitness accounts, Lee's letters and dispatches, and his recorded conversations. It covers all events in Lee's war career: his decision to stand by Virginia, the disappointing campaign in West Virginia, his first major command and the victorious Seven Days. Through these pages, the imposing figure of Lee moves on to Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness -- and finally to the trenches around Richmond and Peterburg, ending with one of the most moving accounts of Appomattox yet written.