The First Confederate Soldier: George Washington Lee and Civil War Atlanta

George Washington Lee represents a great untold epic of the Civil War. His campaigns encompassed Atlanta, Pensacola, Savannah, and Richmond, reaching from the swampy Okefenokee to the Appalachian Mountains. Literally the first soldier of the Confederate army, he was one of the last men in gray, even leading Cherokee warriors in one campaign. As provost marshal of Atlanta, Lee fought arsonists, bootleggers, counterfeiters, crime syndicate members, deserters, draft evaders, espionage agents,...