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| Chapter I. | Lee Makes His Last Desperate Plan | 1 |
| Chapter II. | Fort Stedman (March 25, 1865) | 14 |
| Chapter III. | Five Forks: A Study in Attenuation (March 29-April 1, 1865) | 22 |
| Chapter IV. | The Breaking of the Line | 41 |
| Chapter V. | The Threat of Starvation | 58 |
| Chapter VI. | "Has the Army Been Dissolved?" | 74 |
| Chapter VII. | A Letter Comes to Headquarters | 86 |
| Chapter VIII. | The Last Council of War | 105 |
| Chapter IX. | The Ninth of April | 117 |
| Chapter X. | The Final Bivouacs | 149 |
| Chapter XI. | The Sword of Robert E. Lee | 165 |
| Chapter XII. | Two Decisions | 188 |
| Chapter XIII. | A Third Decision | 215 |
| Chapter XIV. | The Road from Appomattox to Lexington | 226 |
| Chapter XV. | First Fruits at Washington College | 245 |
| Chapter XVI. | "My Boys" | 275 |
| Chapter XVII. | Lee and the Reconstruction Acts | 299 |
| Chapter XVIII. | A Social Conciliator | 320 |
| Chapter XIX. | The Return to Petersburg | 333 |
| Chapter XX. | The Johnston Affair and Old Animosities | 344 |
| Chapter XXI. | Salvaging the Wrecked Family Fortunes | 371 |
| Chapter XXII. | The General Revisits Familiar Scenes | 395 |
| Chapter XXIII. | Lee's Theory of Education | 420 |
| Chapter XXIV. | The Beginning of the End | 433 |
| Chapter XXV. | The Final Review | 444 |
| Chapter XXVI. | Farewell to Northern Virginia | 468 |
| Chapter XXVII. | "Strike the Tent!" | 482 |
| Chapter XXVIII. | The Pattern of a Life | 493 |
| Appendices | 507 | |
| Acknowledgments | 529 | |
| Short-Title Index | 541 | |
| Bibliography | 543 | |
| Index | 571 |
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Ryan Budde
reviewed R. E. Lee: A Biography, Vol. 1 on September 11, 2018 R. E. Lee: A Biography, Vol. 1
Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Robert E. Lee is thorough, complete, and well researched. This volume (1 of 4) goes from his early life through the first few battles of the Civil War.
The word "thorough" does not begin to describe how detailed of an account of Lee's life is portrayed by Freeman. He reports Lee's grades and standing at West Point not one time, but at multiple points during his years at the academy. He also records every book that Lee ever checked out of the library at West Point. Although this seems to drag out the story at first, the level of detail is used be Freeman to show the interests of Lee and the war heroes that he emulated during his campaigns in the Mexican War and the Civil War.
Freeman uses the "fog of war history" so well that it makes you feel as if you are in the shoes of Lee during the early years of his life.
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