Lee and His Generals : Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams / edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott.

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TextPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781572338869
1572338865

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lee and His Generals : Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams.DDC classification:

355.0092 23

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E470

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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 in War 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.

Summary: 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 bro.

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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 bro.