Lee, Robert Edward:
Bibliography
See D. S. Freeman, ed., Lee's Dispatches (new ed. 1958) and C. Dowdey, ed., The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee (1961); Capt. R. E. Lee, Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (2d ed. 1924; new ed., My Father General Lee, 1960), and S. F. Horn, ed., The Robert E. Lee Reader (1949). The definitive biography, R. E. Lee (4 vol., 1934–37; abr. ed. 1961), is by D. S. Freeman; see also biographies by E. M. Thomas (1995) and J. I. Robertson, Jr. (2005); M. W. Fishwick, Lee after the War (1963), T. L. Connelly, The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society (1977), C. Dowdey, Death of a Nation: The Story of Lee and His Men at Gettysburg (1988), A. T. Nolan, Lee Considered: Gen. Robert E. Lee and Civil War History (1991), E. H. Bonekemper 3d, How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War (1997), J. D. McKenzie, Uncertain Glory: Lee's Generalship Reexamined (1997), B. Alexander, Robert E. Lee's Civil War (1998), and M. A. Palmer, Lee Moves North (1998).
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