R. E. Lee, Volume 4

by Douglas Southall Freeman

Overview

Originally published: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931313391
Publisher:	Simon Publications
Publication date:	01/20/2001
Series:	R.E. Lee , #4
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	4
Product dimensions:	6.24(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.58(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter I.	Lee Makes His Last Desperate Plan	1
Chapter II.	Fort Stedman (March 25, 1865)	14
Chapter III.	Five Forks: A Study in Attenuation (March 29-April 1, 1865)	22
Chapter IV.	The Breaking of the Line	41
Chapter V.	The Threat of Starvation	58
Chapter VI.	"Has the Army Been Dissolved?"	74
Chapter VII.	A Letter Comes to Headquarters	86
Chapter VIII.	The Last Council of War	105
Chapter IX.	The Ninth of April	117
Chapter X.	The Final Bivouacs	149
Chapter XI.	The Sword of Robert E. Lee	165
Chapter XII.	Two Decisions	188
Chapter XIII.	A Third Decision	215
Chapter XIV.	The Road from Appomattox to Lexington	226
Chapter XV.	First Fruits at Washington College	245
Chapter XVI.	"My Boys"	275
Chapter XVII.	Lee and the Reconstruction Acts	299
Chapter XVIII.	A Social Conciliator	320
Chapter XIX.	The Return to Petersburg	333
Chapter XX.	The Johnston Affair and Old Animosities	344
Chapter XXI.	Salvaging the Wrecked Family Fortunes	371
Chapter XXII.	The General Revisits Familiar Scenes	395
Chapter XXIII.	Lee's Theory of Education	420
Chapter XXIV.	The Beginning of the End	433
Chapter XXV.	The Final Review	444
Chapter XXVI.	Farewell to Northern Virginia	468
Chapter XXVII.	"Strike the Tent!"	482
Chapter XXVIII.	The Pattern of a Life	493
	Appendices	507
	Acknowledgments	529
	Short-Title Index	541
	Bibliography	543
	Index	571