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Historical person
1226–1285
Robert E. Lee was the principal Confederate general in the eastern theatre of the American Civil War. He won major victories including Second Manassas and Chancellorsville but was checked at Antietam and defeated at Gettysburg before surrendering to Grant at Appomattox.
In Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals, beginning in 1858, the novel follows Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as sectional conflict moves towards secession and war. In Jeff Shaara’s The Killer Angels, Robert E. Lee believes an aggressive victory may force a political settlement, while James Longstreet doubts the wisdom of attacking strong Union positions. Other novels featuring Robert E. Lee include Bernard Cornwell’s Copperhead, Bernard Cornwell’s Battle Flag, Bernard Cornwell’s The Bloody Ground, Jeff Shaara’s The Last Full Measure, and Jeff Shaara’s Gone for Soldiers.
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Series
The Civil War Trilogy presents the eastern theatre of the American Civil War through three connected novels. Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals follows the principal commanders from the approach of secession to Chancellorsville; Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels reconstructs Gettysburg; and Jeff Shaara’s The Last Full…
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The Starbuck Chronicles follow Nathaniel Starbuck, the son of a prominent Boston abolitionist preacher, after chance and personal loyalty draw him into Confederate service at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Serving first in the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must prove himself among soldiers who distrust his Northern…
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Lucky Jack’s Civil War follows cavalry and raiding in the American Civil War from the Confederate side. The books use irregular operations, scouting, raids and the road to Gettysburg to show a mobile war of risk, divided loyalties and battlefield escalation.
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The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…
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The North and South Trilogy follows the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, two families joined when Orry Main and George Hazard become friends at West Point. Their bond survives the Mexican–American War and years of sectional conflict, but slavery, secession and family pressure place…
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