LEE AND HIS ARMY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY

Fine/Fine New hardcover with dust jacket. Maps & illustrations distributed throughout text. Notes, index, 295 pages. ~~~ "Gallagher once again demonstrates the mastery of sources, elegance of style, and lucidity of explanation and interpretation that have made him the foremost historian of the Army of Northern Virginia. The reasons for the orale and esprit that made this army such a feared fighting force are set forth more clearly here than anywhere else." --James M. McPherson ~~~ "Drawing on massive primary evidence, Gallagher has limned attitudes toward Lee and his army from a wide spectrum of Confederate society. The result is a formidable, definitive delineation of the subject. This book punctures the notional and otiose premise that postwar Southerners created an image of Lee that had not existed during the conflict." --Robert K. Krick.