FREEMAN, Douglas Southall.

Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command.

Item #76231

FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942-1944. 1st eds. 3 Vols. lvi,773;xlv,760;xlvi,862pp. Portraits, maps, folding map. Orig. cloth, housed in custom cloth slipcase with red leather label. Vol. Three slightly sunned, pastedowns slightly dampstained, else a very good set. HOWES F-349. Wright F-519. Presentation inscription on the front free endpaper of Vol. One: "To J. G. De R. Hamilton who has contributed to Confederate History with the admiration of Douglas Southall Freeman." Additionally Freeman has written "This is one of 100 advance copies of the first printing of the first edition-D.S.F." Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961) was an historian of the American South and founder of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Stands on its own right as one of the great works of military history"-In Tall Cotton, 61. "The ablest descriptive and evaluative study of the leading generals (and their campaigns) in Lee's army; massively documented, movingly written, highly authoritative, and fairly smug"-Nevins I,p.30.

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