Synopses & Reviews
All unquestioned masterpiecc of the historian's art, and a towering landmark in the literature of the American Civil War.
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of all of Douglas Southall Freeman's works; it is generally considered the most penetrating study ever written of military personalities and tactics during the American Civil War. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of history, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee as they came forward on the stage of war.
In this first volume, Manassas to Malvern Hill, Dr. Freeman describes the rise and fall of General Beauregard, the growing friction between Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston, the emergence and failure of a number of military charlatans, and the first display of ability on the part of some new men at a time when the organization developed at Manassas collapsed at Seven Pines. The narrative illumines the rise of "Stonewall" Jackson and traces his progress in the Shenandoah Valley campaign and into Richmond amid the acclaim of the South, accompanies him through the failures during the Seven Days, and then leaves him, with the new army entirely organized, in the center of the stage of history.
Manassas to Malvern Hill is the first volume of a three-volume work. In the second volume, the men whose reputations were made, or lost, on such fields as Manassas at the second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville dominate the narrative; volume three depicts the Gettysburg campaign and the thunder signaling the ruin of the Confederacy.
Review
Allan NevinsThat Douglas Southall Freeman is our most eminent biographer and ablest military historian no one will dispute.
Synopsis
All unquestioned masterpiecc of the historian's art, and a towering landmark in the literature of the American Civil War.
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of all of Douglas Southall Freeman's works; it is generally considered the most penetrating study ever written of military personalities and tactics during the American Civil War. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of history, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee as they came forward on the stage of war.
In this first volume, Manassas to Malvern Hill, Dr. Freeman describes the rise and fall of General Beauregard, the growing friction between Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston, the emergence and failure of a number of military charlatans, and the first display of ability on the part of some new men at a time when the organization developed at Manassas collapsed at Seven Pines. The narrative illumines the rise of "Stonewall" Jackson and traces his progress in the Shenandoah Valley campaign and into Richmond amid the acclaim of the South, accompanies him through the failures during the Seven Days, and then leaves him, with the new army entirely organized, in the center of the stage of history.
Manassas to Malvern Hill is the first volume of a three-volume work. In the second volume, the men whose reputations were made, or lost, on such fields as Manassas at the second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville dominate the narrative; volume three depicts the Gettysburg campaign and the thunder signaling the ruin of the Confederacy.
Synopsis
This is the most colorful and popular of all of Douglas Southall Freeman's works; it is generally considered the most penetrating study ever written of military personalities and tactics during the American Civil War.
Table of Contents
CONTENTSForeword
"Dramatis Personae"
I. "Old Bory's Coming"
II. Magruder and D. H. Hill Emerge
III. First Loss of a Leader
IV. Beauregard Essays Grand Strategy
V. Beauregard Plans a Battle
VI. Beauregard's Star at Zenith
VII. Pursuit and a Confused Council
VIII. Subordinates of Promise
IX. The Star of Beauregard Is Beclouded
X. Johnston Passes a Dark Winter
XI. Johnston's Withdrawal from Manassas
XII. Johnston Retreats Again
XIII. The Army That Left Yorktown
XIV. Williamsburg
XV. Eltham Introduces John B. Hood
XVI. Twenty-four Unhappy Days
XVII. Seven Pines: A Battle of Strange Errors
XVIlI. Grim Fruits of Anniversary
XIX. Old Snarls Are Untangled
XX. Stuart Justifies His Plume
XXI. General and Deacon Jackson at Odds
XXII. The Building of a "New Model" Army
XXIII. "Dick" Ewell Sticks by a "Crazy Man"
XXIV. Jackson Launches His Offensive
XXV. Cedarville to Winchester -- a Dreadful Night
XXVI. A Victory Ends at a Manse
XXVII. "From the Snare of the Fowler"
XXVII. A Crowning Double Victory
XXIX. "The Hero of the South"
XXX. Jackson Marches to a Confusing Field
XXXI. The New Organization Fails
XXXII. First Battle of A. N. Va.
XXXIII. Magruder Stays Up Too Long
XXXIV. The Delay in the Reconcentration
XXXV. Two Columns Are Halted
XXXVI. Holmes Advances and Magruder Gallops in Vain
XXXVII. Malvern Hill: A Tragedy of Staff
XXXVIII. The End of Magruder and of Huger
XXXIX. Discontent and Dyspepsia as Problems of Command
XL. Stuart Makes a Second "Raid"
XLI. The Juniors Who Vied with Veterans
XLII. The Enigma of Jackson's State of Mind
XLIII. A New Organization for New Battles
APPENDIX
I. The Military Geography of Virginia
II. Southern Resources of Command
III. The Distribution of Beauregard's Combat Order of July 20, 1861
IV. Order of Battle of Confederate Infantry, July 21, 1861
V. Origin of the Name "Stonewall"
VI. Jackson's Plans and Marches of May 24, 1862
Manuscript Sources
Short Title Index
Index