Lee and His Generals: Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams

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Contents Preface xi Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott Acknowledgments xix T. Harry Williams: Pragmatic Historian 1 Frank J. Wetta The Generalship of Robert E. Lee 19 Charles P. Roland A “Confusion of Tongues”: The Ebb and Flow of Robert E. Lee’s Reputation since 1964 49 Brian Holden Reid Lee’s Most Maligned General: “Fighting Dick” Anderson 81 Lawrence Lee Hewitt Jeb Stuart, R. E. Lee, and Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg 115 Joseph G. Dawson III P. G. T. Beauregard and the Petersburg Campaign 153 A. Wilson Greene Stonewall Jackson: The Christian Soldier in Life, Death, and Defeat 181 George C. Rable “The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions”: James Longstreet in War and Peace 203 William L. Richter Jubal Early: Confederate in the Attic 229 Thomas E. Schott John B. Gordon and the “Gospel of Reconciliation” 253 Ralph L. Eckert Williams among the Rebels: Southern Generalship in the Civil War 273 Roger Spiller Publications of T. Harry Williams 295 Bibliography 301 Contributors 327 Index 331 Illustrations Figures T. Harry Williams in His Office at Lincolnand xx General Robert Edward Lee 18 General Robert E. Lee at the End of the Civil War 48 Lieutenant General Richard Heron Anderson 80 Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart 114 Cavalry Fight near Aldie, Virginia 121 Stuart’s Headquarters 141 General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard 152 Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson 180 Sketch of Jackson Just Before He Died 189 Lieutenant General James Longstreet 202 James Longstreet after the Civil War 215 Jubal Anderson Early after the Civil War 228 John Brown Gordon after the Civil War 252 T. Harry Williams Giving His Final Lecture 272 Maps Defenses of Williamsburg, Virginia 84 Deployment near Little Sailor’s Creek, April 6, 1865 103 Gettysburg Campaign, June 27, 1863 126 Petersburg, Virginia, June 15–18, 1864 158 Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864 167 ...