Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War Book

One of the reasons that I like to read, is that you are there, whether it be under the ocean in a submarine, walking with Moses during the Exodus, or traveling through foreign lands, or in this instance, on the war torn battle-fields with General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia during their struggles and the campaigns against the Union soldiers during "The (not so) Civil War." And Burke Davis's account is not a disappointment at all. You are there, with every Struggle,and disappointment, you experience death, heartbreak, loss, Victory and defeat. his descriptions are so poignant, compassion and deep feelings, I was so humbled I had to stop reading in silence, and ask in prayer to our most heavenly father how can inflict so much horror and destruction on each other.

Using eye-witness accounts and his broad knowledge of history to introduce you to General Robert E. Lee, the flawed and the brilliance, his loving compassion for his fellow man, and his unerring faith in God and his undying faith in the majesty of our Lord and Savior. He was and is now considered one of the great Generals in American Military history. A daring Strategist, brilliant and daring in his offensive tactics, and second to none at the defensive. A Southern Gentleman by all accounts by friends and foe, who never waivered from his personal convictions, of honor and his integrity. Hampered by the President of the CSA, Jefferson Dav is in interferring in day to day operations until March of 1865 when it was much too late.

Resigning from the United States Army must have been one of hardest things for him to do and then take up the sword in Virginia's defense must of been devastating for him. Drawing his sword and taking the field was probably the most dis-service that he could have done to the South, by prolonging the final results for by all accounts by at least two years or more. This is only Conjecture on my part, I believe if he would had accepted the Commanding General of the Union Army the war would of been over alot quicker and would have been more humane and kinder to the south. Lee did with a depleted Command that the Generals of the north could not do with plenty including Grant. Lee Had an uncanny way of anticipating his apponents next move and acting on it without evidence and then proved right. Grant was also good General Who realized that he possessed unlimited man-power, provissions and materials and that what Gen. Lee lost in man-power and provissions could not replaced. Gen. Grant had an added influx of man-power by recruiting and enlisting the recently ammancipated slaves and free men of color, He also crippled Lee and the South by discontiuing prisoner exchanges. At the end even taking POW's was a strain on the Lee because he had to feed them when his own army was starving.

To really appreciate the struggles of the South and the Army of Northern Virginia I would like to recommend reading:

April 1865 "The Month That Saved America" by Jay Winik.

Jefferson Davis "Confederate President" by Hudson Strode