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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788265603321

Titolo

Lee and his generals [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honor of T. Harry Williams / / edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-69971-X

9786613676696

1-57233-886-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HewittLawrence L

SchottThomas Edwin <1943->

WilliamsT. Harry <1909-1979.> (Thomas Harry)

Disciplina

355.0092

B

Soggetti

Generals - Confederate States of America

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface / Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott -- Acknowledgments -- T. Harry Williams: pragmatic historian / Frank J. Wetta -- The generalship of Robert E. Lee / Charles P. Roland -- A "confusion of tongues": the ebb and flow of Robert E. Lee's reputation since 1964 / Brian Holden Reid -- Lee's most maligned general: "Fighting Dick" Anderson / Lawrence Lee Hewitt -- Jeb Stuart, R.E. Lee, and Confederate defeat at Gettysburg / Joseph G. Dawson III -- P.G.T. Beauregard and the Petersburg campaign / A. Wilson Greene -- Stonewall Jackson: the Christian soldier in life, death, and defeat / George C. Rable -- "The road to hell is paved with good intentions": James Longstreet in war and peace / William L. Richter -- Jubal Early: Confederate in the attic / Thomas E. Schott -- John B. Gordon and the "gospel of reconciliation" / Ralph L. Eckert -- Williams among the rebels: southern generalship in the Civil War / Roger Spiller -- Publications of T. Harry Williams.

Sommario/riassunto

A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry Williams



not only produced such acclaimed works as Lincoln and the Radicals, Lincoln and His Generals,  and a biography of Huey Long that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the  National Book Award, but he also mentored generations of students who  became distinguished historians in their own right. In this collection,  ten of those former students, along with one author greatly inspired by  Williams's example, offer incisive essays that honor both Williams and  his career-long dedication to sound, imaginative scholarship