AN OLD-FASHIONED SOLDIER IN A MODERN WAR? ROBERT E. LEE AS CONFEDERATE GENERAL.

From: Civil War History | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: Gallagher, Gary W. | Copyright information

MUCH OF THE literature on the Civil War portrays Robert E. Lee as a grand anachronism. In a conflict often characterized, whether accurately or not, as the first great modern war,(1) the Confederate commander frequently appears as a soldier of considerable martial gifts who harkened back to an earlier time. Lee is cast as a man who thought of the struggle in terms of protecting his own state rather advancing the cause of the entire Confederacy, forged a personal bond with his soldi...

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