To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Lee's Lieutenants follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who commanded-among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell-developed as leaders and men.
The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works.
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