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Historical person
1807–1870
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.
Before the Civil War, Lee graduated from West Point, served with distinction in the Mexican-American War and later became superintendent of the military academy. He resigned from the United States Army after Virginia seceded in 1861 and accepted Confederate command. After the war he urged reconciliation within the defeated South and served as president of Washington College in Lexington until his death in 1870.
Bernard Cornwell’s Battle Flag places Robert E. Lee at the head of the Army of Northern Virginia during the 1862 campaign that carries Nathaniel Starbuck towards Second Bull Run, while Copperhead brings Lee into command as the Peninsula Campaign threatens Richmond. Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals makes Lee one of its principal viewpoints, following his decision to leave the United States Army, his assumption of Confederate command and the victories that establish his reputation. Battle of Antietam examines Lee’s first invasion of the North and the retreat that allowed Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Battle of Gettysburg follows his second northern invasion through the three-day battle and the failure of Pickett’s Charge, when the limits of Lee’s offensive strategy became unmistakable.
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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 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 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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The Last Cavaliers follows Yancey and Clay Tremayne through the opening and later campaigns of the American Civil War. Military education, cavalry service and loyalties to commanders such as Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee place the brothers within the Confederacy’s rise and defeat.…
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