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Lee considered
General Robert E. Lee and Civil War history
By Nolan, Alan T.
- ISBN
- 978-0-80781-956-2
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1991.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 1991
Marching in the tracks of such historians as Bruce Catton, Thomas Connelly, and T. Harry Williams, Nolan tries to unhorse the mythic Lee. In pointing out the contradictions between the legend and the man, Nolan shows that Lee the slaveholder was not antislavery, that the reluctant secessionist endorsed Southern...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
