There never were such men in an Army before. Lee himself supplied the answer when Freeman remembered a letter the commander had written in 1863: ”…our Army would be invincible if it could be properly organized and officered.
The first problem was how to write the book at all without simply echoing his earlier study. A question plagued and pursued: In holding the light exclusively on Lee, had one put in undeserved shadow the many excellent soldiers of his army?” It took him the next ten years to lay to rest the ghosts of the men who labored for Lee. But he found, he said, “that mentally it was not easy to leave the struggle about which one had been writing for twenty years and more. Lee, Douglas Southall Freeman wanted to step back a century and write about another great Virginian, George Washington. By Douglas Southall Freeman Scribner’s three paperback volumes, $16.95 each.Īfter finishing his 1934 biography R.
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