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GENERAL LEE Civil War/Gettysburg/Virginia 1871 RARE 1st
FANTASTIC, COLLECTABLE TREATISE ON THE "A LIFE OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE" BY JOHN ESTEN COOKE PUBLISHED BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY IN NEW YORK 1871. ~PROFUSELLY ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS~ This important biography was written by an authoritative figure on the subject of Virginia and the Civil War. John Cooke provides a profound insight into the life of the man who led the Army of Northern Virginia to so many improbable victories in depth knowledge really shines in this greatly written biography of General Robert Lee. John Esten Cooke (1830 - 1886) was an American novelist, born in Virginia and noted for writing about that state. He illustrated Virginia life and history in the novels, The Virginia Comedians (1854), and The Wearing of the Gray , a tale of the American Civil War, and more formally in a respected Virginia history. His style was somewhat high-flown. He was the author of The Youth of Jefferson . In March and April 1862, Cooke served as an unpaid volunteer aid for Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart in the Confederate cavalry. Cooke was a first cousin of General Stuart's wife, Flora Cooke Stuart. On May 19, 1862, he was formally commissioned as a lieutenant and officially joined Stuart's staff. Cooke participated in the Peninsula Campaign and Stuart's subsequent ride around the Union army of George B. McClellan, later writing a detailed description of the action. During the war, he served Stuart as an aide, ordnance officer, and assistant adjutant general, earning the rank of captain. Following Stuart's death at Yellow Tavern in May 1864, Cooke served on other generals' staffs, eventually rising to the rank of major by the end of the war. In 1863, he wrote the first of several popular biographies of Stonewall Jackson. He also published a novel on Jackson, Surry of Eagle's Nest (1866) as well as a biography of Robert E. Lee, officers that he had personally known. GENERAL LEE Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870) was a career U.S. Army officer and the leader of the army of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Lee was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" (1756-1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773-1829), was a descendant of Thomas More and of King Robert II of Scotland through the Earls of Crawford. A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for 32 years, during which time he fought in the Mexican-American War. In early 1861, Lee opposed the secession of his home state of Virginia, but rejected President Lincoln's offer to command the United States forces. When Virginia seceded from the Union in April of 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state. Lee's role in the newly established Confederacy was to serve as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis. Lee's first field command for the Confederate States came in June 1862 when he took command of the Confederate forces in the East (which Lee himself renamed the "Army of Northern Virginia.") Lee's greatest victories were the Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg, and the Battle of Chancellorsville, but both of his campaigns to invade the North ended in failure. Barely escaping defeat at the Battle of Antietam in 1862, Lee was forced to return to Virginia. In early July 1863, Lee was decisively defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. However, due to ineffectual pursuit by the commander of Union forces, Maj. Gen. George Meade, Lee escaped again to Virginia. In spring 1864 , the new Union commander, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant began a series of campaigns to wear down Lee's forces. In the Overland Campaign of 1864 and the Siege of Petersburg in 1864-65, Lee inflicted heavy casualties on Grant's larger army, but was unable to replace his own losses. In early April 1865, Lee's depleted forces were driven from their entrenchments near the Confederate capital of Richmon...
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