Lee Considered by Alan T Nolan
Of all the heroes produced by the Civil War, Robert E. Lee is the most revered and perhaps the most misunderstood. Lee is widely portrayed as an ardent antisecessionist who left the United States Army only because he would not draw his sword against his native Virginia, a Southern aristocrat who opposed slavery, and a brilliant military leader whose exploits sustained the Confederate cause.Alan Nolan explodes these and other assumptions about Lee and the war through a rigorous reexamination of familiar and long-available historical sources, including Lee's personal and official correspondence and the large body of writings about Lee. Looking at this evidence in a critical way, Nolan concludes that there is little truth to the dogmas traditionally set forth about Lee and the war.
Alan T. Nolan is a lawyer in Indianapolis, an Honorary Trustee of the Indiana Historical Society, a Fellow of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and member of the Indianapolis Civil War Round Table. His Civil War books include The Iron Brigade and Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History. With Sharon Vipond, he edited Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade. Several years ago in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, the Milwaukee Civil War Round Table, the second oldest round table in the country, created a new award called the Alan T. Nolan Lifetime Achievement Award. The first recipient, obviously, was Alan T. Nolan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807819562 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807819565 |
| Title | Lee Considered |
| Author | Alan T Nolan |
| Series | Civil War America |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 1991-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 243 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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