Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command 3 Volume Set

Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command 3 Volume Set

Volume 1: Manassas to Malvern Hill

Volume 2: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville

Volume 3: Gettysburg to Appomattox

by Douglas Southall Freeman

Hardcover Cloth 3 Volume Set 773, 760, 862 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Volume 1 Presumed first edition 1942. Volume 2 Presumed first edition 1943. Volume 3 presumed first edition 1944. Handsome black boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's address label and / or signature on front endpapers. Books Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing and some spotting. Pages are lightly toned. Some bumped corners. Volume 3 sun damage to top of boards, spine and headband. Volume 3 has dust jacket in Poor Condition with considerable tears, stains and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Set is heavier than standard book; S&H will be adjusted.

Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee.

The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who commanded—among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell—developed as leaders and men. Lee's Lieutenants follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation.

The son of a Confederate veteran, Douglas Southall Freeman was long interested in the Civil War. A man of intense work ethic, he earned his PhD at 22, then balanced a journalist's demanding schedule with a historian's, as he churned out Lee's Dispatches (1915), the Pulitzer-Prize-winning four-volume R. E. Lee: A Biography (1934-35), Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (1942-44), and finally, the multi-volume George Washington (1948-54). A respected historian, renown for his research, he garnered fame in his native Virginia and the friendship of major military figures.