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* Johnson, R. U. and Buel, C. C. eds. ''Battles and Leaders of the Civil War''. 4 vols. New York, 1887-88; essays by leading generals of both sides; [http://ehistory.osu.edu/USCW/library/books/battles/index.cfm online edition]
* Johnson, R. U. and Buel, C. C. eds. ''Battles and Leaders of the Civil War''. 4 vols. New York, 1887-88; essays by leading generals of both sides; [http://ehistory.osu.edu/USCW/library/books/battles/index.cfm online edition]
* Taylor, Walter H. ''Four Years with General Lee'' Reprint. (1962).  
* Taylor, Walter H. ''Four Years with General Lee'' Reprint. (1962).  
* Taylor, Walter H. ''General Lee — His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865''. Reprint. (1975)
* Taylor, Walter H. ''General Lee — His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865''. (1906) [http://books.google.com/books?id=1EMHvxGW5qIC&dq=intitle:lee+inauthor:Taylor+inauthor:Walter+inauthor:H&num=30&as_brr=1 online complete edition]
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Robert E. Lee

Bibliography

Biographical

  • Blount, Roy, Jr. Robert E. Lee (2003). 210 pp. short popular biography excerpt and text search
  • Carmichael, Peter S. ed. Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee (2004). excerpt and text search
  • Connelly, Thomas L. "The Image and the General: Robert E. Lee in American Historiography." Civil War History 19 (March 1973): 50-64.
  • Connelly, Thomas L. The Marble Man. Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. (1977).
  • Connelly, Thomas L. "Robert E. Lee and the Western Confederacy: A Criticism of Lee's Strategic Ability." Civil War History 15 (June 1969): 116-32
  • Fellman, Michael. The Making of Robert E. Lee. (2000), fairly negative (ISBN 0-679-45650-3). excerpt and text search
  • Flood, Charles Bracelen. Lee — The Last Years (1981).
  • Freeman, Douglas S., R. E. Lee, A Biography (4 volumes), Scribners, 1934 (online in its entirety). The longest and most influential biography, by Pulitzer prize winner
  • Gallagher, Gary W. Lee the Soldier. (1996) excerpt and text search
  • Gallagher; Gary W. Lee & His Army in Confederate History. (2001) excerpt and text search
  • Gallagher; Gary W. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory (1998) excerpt and text search
  • McCaslin, Richard B. Lee in the Shadow of Washington. (2001). excerpt and text search
  • Pryor, Elizabeth Brown. Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. (2007).
  • Reid, Brian Holden. Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation, (2005).
  • Robertson, James. Robert E. Lee: Virginian Soldier, American Citizen (2005), 176 pages, for middle school audience
  • Thomas, Emory Robert E. Lee (1995) (ISBN 0-393-03730-4) full-scale biography by leading scholar excerpt and text search

Military campaigns

see also U.S. Civil War, Bibliography

  • Brown, Kent Masterson. Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. U. of North Carolina Press, 2005. excerpt and text search
  • Cavanaugh, Michael A. and William Marvel, The Petersburg Campaign: The Battle of the Crater: "The Horrid Pit," June 25-August 6, 1864 (1989)
  • Coddington, Edwin B. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command (1968), the best single book; excerpt and text search
  • Dowdey, Clifford. The Seven Days 1964.
  • Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (3 volumes), (1946), ISBN 0-684-85979-3.
  • Fuller, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Grant and Lee, A Study in Personality and Generalship (1957), ISBN 0-253-13400-5.
  • Gallagher, Gary W., ed. Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership (1999) online edition
  • Gallagher, Gary ed. The Second Day at Gettysburg and Beyond (1993) excerpt and text search
  • Gallagher, Gary ed. The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond (1994)
  • Grimsley, Mark, And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (2002).
  • Harsh, Joseph L. Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 (1999)
  • McPherson, James M. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (2002) excerpt and text search
  • McWhiney, Grady, Battle in the Wilderness: Grant Meets Lee (1995)
  • Maney, R. Wayne, Marching to Cold Harbor. Victory and Failure, 1864 (1994).
  • Marvel, William. Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox. (2002).
  • Matter, William D., If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania (1988) excerpt and text search
  • Miller, J. Michael, The North Anna Campaign: "Even to Hell Itself," May 21-26, 1864 (1989).
  • Nofi, Albert A. The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 (1997) online edition; excerpt and text search
  • Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: The First Day (2000) excerpt and text search
  • Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: The Second Day (1987) online edition excerpt and text search
  • Rhea, Gordon C., The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, (1994) ISBN 0-8071-1873-7. excerpt and text search
  • Rhea, Gordon C., The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7–12, 1864, (1997), ISBN 0-8071-2136-3. excerpt and text search
  • Rhea, Gordon C., To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864, (2000), ISBN 0-8071-2535-0. excerpt and text search
  • Rhea, Gordon C., Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26 – June 3, 1864, (2002), ISBN 0-8071-2803-1.
  • Sears, Stephen W. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam (2003) excerpt and text search
  • Sears, Stephen W. Gettysburg (2004) excerpt and text search
  • Trudeau, Noah. Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864 (2002) excerpt and text search
  • Trudeau, Noah Andrew. The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865 (1991)
  • Woodworth, Steven E. Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign. (2003). 241 pp.

Primary sources

  • Dowdey, Clifford. and Louis H. Manarin, eds. The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee. (1961).
  • Freeman, Douglas Southall. ed. Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A. to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-65. Rev. ed. with foreword by Grady McWhiney. (1957).
  • Johnson, R. U. and Buel, C. C. eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York, 1887-88; essays by leading generals of both sides; online edition
  • Taylor, Walter H. Four Years with General Lee Reprint. (1962).
  • Taylor, Walter H. General Lee — His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865. (1906) online complete edition

Footnotes