EARLE : Robert E. Lee (fülszöveg)
Was Robert E. Lee, the grey-haired, patrician general of the South in the American Civil War, the greatest commander of them all? In this book Peter Earle re-examines the extraordinary story of the four-year resistance of the Confederate States of America against the forces of Northern idealism, Mammon and the future. Lee, a gentleman from Virginia and a former regular officer in the United States Army, took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in the second year of the war and fashioned this collection of squirrel hunters and planters, college boys and dirt farmers into one of the most formidable fighting machines in military history. This army of half-starved ragamuffins, Lee's Miserables, consistently beat opponents twice their number in battle. From the day when he took command to the sad moment when, surrounded, he surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant, Lee was the fighting soul of the hopeless Southern cause and his soldiers were said to carry the Confederacy on their bayonets. After the war Lee became almost a saint in Southern eyes, a saint whose nobility and courage furnished the best proof that the cause had been a worthy one and the young men of the South had not died in vain.
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