General Robert E. Lee of Virginia

Robert E. Lee

An American of the South

All these were honoured in their generations
And were the glory to their times
There be of them
That have left a name behind them
That their praises might be reported
And some there be which have no memorial
Who are perished as though they had never been
And are become as though they had never been born
and their children after them

But these were merciful men
Whose righteousness has not been forgotten
With their seed shall continually remain
A good inheritance
And their children are within the Covenant
Their seed standeth fast
And their children for their sakes
Their seed shall remain for ever
And their glory shall not be blotted out
Their bodies are buried in peace
But their name liveth for ever more

Ecclesiasticus xliv

Frontispiece from Shelby Foote's The Civil War, A Narrative
Selected bibliography::
  • Freeman, Douglas Southall, Robert E. Lee, Schribners, N.Y., 1961
    An Abridgment by Richard Harwell of the 1934 Pulizer Prize Winning 4 Volume Biography.
  • Taylor, Walter H., General Lee, His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865, University of Nebraska Press, 1994
    Originally published in 1908 with many personal reminiscences of the officer who functioned as Lee's chief of staff during the war.
  • Foote, Shelby, The Civil War, a Narrative, Volume I, Fort Sumpter to Perryville, Random House, New York, 1958
  • Foote, Shelby, The Civil War, a Narrative, Volume II, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Random House, New York, 1963
  • Foote, Shelby, The Civil War, a Narrative, Volume III, Red River to Appomattox, Random House, New York, 1974
  • Mitchell, Joseph B., Decisive Battles of the Civil War, Random House, New York, 1955
  • Freeman, Douglas Southall, Lee's Lieutenants, Vols. I-III, Scribner's Sons, New York, 1942-44
  • Longstreet, James, From Manassas to Appomattox, Da Capo Press, New York, 1992, (originally published by J. B. Lippincott, 1895).
  • Stackpole, E. J., They Met at Gettysburg, Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pa., 1956
  • Foote, Shelby, Shiloh: A Novel, Random House, New York, 1952
  • Cash, W. J., The Mind of the South, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1941
  • Bradford, G., Lee, The American, Houghton Mifflin, Cambridge, Mass., 1912
  • The Gettysburg Address

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