Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee

Bibliography

Biographical

• Blount, Roy, Jr. Robert E. Lee (2003). 210 pp. short popular biography
• Carmichael, Peter S. ed. Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee (2004).
• Connelly, Thomas L. "The Image and the General: Robert E. Lee in American Historiography." Civil War History 19 (March 1973): 50-64.
• Connelly, Thomas L. The Marble Man. Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. (1977).
• Connelly, Thomas L. "Robert E. Lee and the Western Confederacy: A Criticism of Lee's Strategic Ability." Civil War History 15 (June 1969): 116-32
• Cooke, John E. "A Life of General Robert E. Lee" (2004).
• Dowdey, Clifford. Lee 1965.
• Fellman, Michael. The Making of Robert E. Lee. (2000) (ISBN 0-679-45650-3).
• Fishwick, Marshall W. Lee after the War 1963.
• Flood, Charles Bracelen. Lee — The Last Years 1981.
• Freeman, Douglas S., R. E. Lee, A Biography (4 volumes), Scribners, 1934 (online in its entirety). The longest and most influential biography, by Pulitzer prize winner

Lee the Soldier. (1996)

• Gallagher; Gary W. Lee & His Army in Confederate History. (2001)
• McCaslin, Richard B. Lee in the Shadow of Washington. (2001).
• Pryor, Elizabeth Brown; Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. (2007).
• Reid, Brian Holden. Robert E. Lee: Icon for a Nation, (2005).
• Thomas, Emory Robert E. Lee (1995) (ISBN 0-393-03730-4) full-scale biography

Military campaigns

• Brown, Kent Masterson. Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. (2005).
• Cavanaugh, Michael A. and William Marvel, The Petersburg Campaign: The Battle of the Crater: "The Horrid Pit," June 25-August 6, 1864 (1989)
• Davis, William C. Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg (1986).
• Dowdey, Clifford. The Seven Days 1964.
• Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (3 volumes), (1946), ISBN 0-684-85979-3.
• Fuller, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Grant and Lee, A Study in Personality and Generalship (1957), ISBN 0-253-13400-5.
• Gott, Kendall D. Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862, (2003), ISBN 0-8117-0049-6.
• Grimsley, Mark, And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (2002).
• Harsh, Joseph L. Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 (1999)
• McWhiney, Grady, Battle in the Wilderness: Grant Meets Lee (1995)
• Maney, R. Wayne, Marching to Cold Harbor. Victory and Failure, 1864 (1994).
• Marvel, William. Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox. (2002).
• Matter, William D. If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania (1988)
• Rhea, Gordon C. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5–6, 1864, (1994), ISBN 0-8071-1873-7.
• Rhea, Gordon C. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7–12, 1864, (1997), ISBN 0-8071-2136-3.
• Rhea, Gordon C. To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864, (2000), ISBN 0-8071-2535-0.
• Rhea, Gordon C. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26 – June 3, 1864, (2002), ISBN 0-8071-2803-1.
• Miller, J. Michael, The North Anna Campaign: "Even to Hell Itself," May 21-26, 1864 (1989).

Primary sources

• Dowdey, Clifford. and Louis H. Manarin, eds. The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee. (1961).
• Freeman, Douglas Southall. ed. Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A. to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-65. Rev. ed. with foreword by Grady McWhiney. (1957).
• Johnson, R. U. and Buel, C. C. eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York, 1887-88; essays by leading generals of both sides; online edition
• Taylor, Walter H. Four Years with General Lee Reprint. (1962).
• Taylor, Walter H. General Lee — His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865. Reprint. (1975)