THE LIFE OF General Robert E. Lee

In attempting to write a record of the Life and Career of General Robert E. Lee, the great commander of the Southern Army in the Civil War, the author undertakes the work with some diffidence and misgiving. This is occasioned, in part, by a sense of responsibility in undertaking so important a task, a task that had already been so well achieved by other and prominent biographers of “ the hero of a Lost Cause ” ; and in part also, by a doubt in the present writer’s mind of being able to do a...