Robert E. Lee the Southerner

1908. With Portrait. Thomas Nelson Page, author of short stories, novels, essays, and poetry, is best known for his role as literary spokesman for the glories of the Old South. In this volume he provides a sketch of, as he describes him, the great Virginian Robert E. Lee. Contents: Early Life; First Service; The Choice of Hercules; Resources; Lee in West Virginia; The Situation When Lee Took Command; Battles Around Richmond; Lee's Audacity-Antietam and Chancellorsville; Lee's Clemency; Gettysburg; The Wilderness Campaign; Lee and Grant; The Retreat to Appomattox; Lee in Defeat; After the War; Lee as College President; Sources of Character; and The Heritage of the South. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.Page, Thomas Nelson is the author of 'Robert E. Lee the Southerner' with ISBN 9781417908271 and ISBN 1417908270.