Lee's Lieutenants : Vol. II - Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910156456503321
• Autore: Freeman Douglas Southall
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 9781786259479; 1786259478
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (846 p.)
• Collana: Lee's Lieutenants: a Study in Command Series
• Disciplina: 973.73
• Soggetti: Command of troops - History; Generals - Confederate States of America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Title page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- MAPS -- INTRODUCTION -- “DRAMATIS PERSONÆ” -- CHAPTER I-NEW TROUBLES FOR “OLD JACK” -- CHAPTER II-JACKSON FUMBLES AT CEDAR MOUNTAIN -- CHAPTER III-JEB STUART LOSES HIS PLUME -- CHAPTER IV-RAPPAHANNOCK: ACT ONE OF A NEW DRAMA -- CHAPTER V-JACKSON IS HIMSELF AGAIN -- CHAPTER VI-JACKSON DEFIES POPE AND THANKS GOD -- CHAPTER VII-THE GALLANT RIVALRY OF MANASSAS -- CHAPTER VIII-THE IMPONDERABLES OF INVASION -- CHAPTER IX-GENERALS ON DISPLAY -- CHAPTER X-HARVEY HILL’S BATTLE -- CHAPTER XI-THE TEST OF LAFAYETTE MCLAWS -- CHAPTER XII-THE “WAGON HUNTER’S” GREAT DAY -- CHAPTER XIII-DESPERATE HOURS ON THE ANTIETAM -- CHAPTER XIV-PENDLETON FAILS TO COUNT HIS MEN -- CHAPTER XV-LONGSTREET AND JACKSON STEP UP -- CHAPTER XVI-A CRISIS IN REORGANIZATION -- CHAPTER XVII-THE BALANCE OF THE TWO CORPS -- CHAPTER XVIII-HOW TO ACCOMPLISH “THE IMPOSSIBLE” -- CHAPTER XIX-CHIEFLY PERSONAL TO JACKSON -- CHAPTER XX-THE BATTLE OF THE PONTOONS -- CHAPTER XXI-ON THE RIGHT AT FREDERICKSBURG -- CHAPTER XXII-LONGSTREET WINS AN EASY VICTORY -- CHAPTER XXIII-THE NIGHT OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS -- CHAPTER XXIV-AFTER FREDERICKSBURG-LAMENT AND LAURELS
• Sommario/riassunto: Following the critical success of R. E. Lee: A Biography, for which he ; won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize, author Douglas Southall Freeman expanded his study of the Confederacy with the critically acclaimed three-volume Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, originally published in 1942, 1943, and 1944.Together, the three volumes present a unique combination of military strategy, biography, and Civil War history, and shows how armies actually work. Published during World War II, it had a great influence on American military leaders and strategists.Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command established Freeman as the pre-eminent military historian in the country, and led to close friendships with United States generals George Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower.