Lee and His Generals : Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams

Englisch

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2012

2012.

1 online resource (369 pages)

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Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9781572338500

978-1-57233-886-9

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Contents; Preface - Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott; Acknowledgments; T. Harry Williams: Pragmatic Historian - Frank J. Wetta; The Generalship of Robert E. Lee - Charles P. Roland; A "Confusion of Tongues": The Ebb and Flow of Robert E. Lee's Reputation since 1964 - Brian Holden Reid; Lee's Most Maligned General: "Fighting Dick" Anderson - Lawrence Lee Hewitt; Jeb Stuart, R. E. Lee, and Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg - Joseph G. Dawson III; P. G. T. Beauregard and the Petersburg Campaign - A. Wilson Greene

Stonewall Jackson: The Christian Soldier in Life, Death, and Defeat - George C. Rable"The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions": James Longstreet inWar and Peace - William L. Richter; Jubal Early: Confederate in the Attic - Thomas E. Schott; John B. Gordon and the "Gospel of Reconciliation" - Ralph L. Eckert; Williams among the Rebels: Southern Generalship in the Civil War - Roger Spiller; Publications of T. Harry Williams; Bibliography; Contributors; Index;

*Lee, Robert E. *1807-1870* / Militär / Führung / Sezessionskrieg

*Electronic books

*Confederate States of America ; Army ; Biography ; Generals ; Confederate States of America ; Biography ; United States ; History ; Civil War, 1861-1865 ; Biography ; United States ; History ; Civil War, 1861-1865 ; Campaigns ; Electronic books

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: E470 .L524 2012

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 355.0092 ; B;

A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry Williams not only produced such acclaimed works as Lincoln and the Radicals, Lincoln and His Generals, and a biography of Huey Long that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, but he also mentored generations of students who became distinguished historians in their own right. In this collection, ten of those former students, along with one author greatly inspired by Williams's example, offer incisive essays that honor both Williams and his career-long dedication to sound, imaginative scholarship and broad historical inquiry. The opening and closing essays, fittingly enough, deal with Williams himself: a biographical sketch by Frank J. Wetta and a piece by Roger Spiller that place Williams in larger historical perspective among writers on Civil War generalship. The bulk of the book focuses on Robert E. Lee and a number of the commanders who served under him, starting with Charles Roland's seminal article "The Generalship of Robert E. Lee," the only one in the collection that has been previously published. Among the essays that follow Roland's are contributions by Brian Holden Reid on the ebb and flow of Lee's reputation, George C. Rable on Stonewall Jackson's deep religious commitment, A. Wilson Greene on P. G. T. Beauregard's role in the Petersburg Campaign, and William L. Richter on James Longstreet as postwar pariah. Together these gifted historians raise a host of penetrating and original questions about how we are to understand America's defining conflict in our own time-just as T. Harry Williams did in his. And by encompassing such varied subjects as military history, religion, and historiography, Lee and His Generals demonstrates once more what a fertile field Civil War scholarship remains. Lawrence Lee Hewitt is professor of history emeritus at

Intro -- Contents -- Preface - Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott -- Acknowledgments -- T. Harry Williams: Pragmatic Historian - Frank J. Wetta -- The Generalship of Robert E. Lee - Charles P. Roland -- A "Confusion of Tongues": The Ebb and Flow of Robert E. Lee's Reputation since 1964 - Brian Holden Reid -- Lee's Most Maligned General: "Fighting Dick" Anderson - Lawrence Lee Hewitt -- Jeb Stuart, R. E. Lee, and Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg - Joseph G. Dawson III -- P. G. T. Beauregard and the Petersburg Campaign - A. Wilson Greene -- Stonewall Jackson: The Christian Soldier in Life, Death, and Defeat - George C. Rable -- "The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions": James Longstreet inWar and Peace - William L. Richter -- Jubal Early: Confederate in the Attic - Thomas E. Schott -- John B. Gordon and the "Gospel of Reconciliation" - Ralph L. Eckert -- Williams among the Rebels: Southern Generalship in the Civil War - Roger Spiller -- Publications of T. Harry Williams -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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