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American Experience: Robert E. Lee – Review
American Experience: Robert E. Lee provides a competent examination of the iconic commander, but stylistically the program doesn’t live up to others in this excellent PBS series.
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Fighting Words: Robert E. Lee, Tycoon?
The noun tycoon had a quite different meaning during the war. It signified a top leader, and was applied to Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, among others. Christine Ammer has edited encyclopedias and written several dozen wordbooks, including Have a Nice Day—No Problem! A Dictionary of Clichés (1992).
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Robert K. Krick, Chronicler of Robert E. Lee’s Army
Robert Krick worked for 31 years as the chief historian at Fredericksburg & […]
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Did Robert E. Lee Doom Himself at Gettysburg?
By blindly relying on poor intelligence and saying far too little to his generals, Lee may have sealed the Rebels’ fate.
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James Longstreet: Robert E. Lee’s Most Valuable Soldier
The words resonate through Confederate history like an unwelcome truth. As General Robert E. […]
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Robert E. Lee and His Horse Traveller
Rarely have horse and rider gone so well together as Traveller and Robert E. Lee.
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Second Battle of Manassas: Union Major General John Pope Was No Match for Robert E. Lee
Brash, bombastic John Pope tempted fate by returning to the old battleground at Manassas. He thought he had caught Robert E. Lee napping. He was wrong.
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Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet at Odds at Gettysburg
At Gettysburg, Longstreet told Lee that a direct assault would end in disaster—but Pickett’s Charge went forward anyway.
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Battle of the Wilderness With General Robert E. Lee
As the Union army crossed the Rapidan River to commence its powerful 1864 spring offensive, Confederate General Robert E. Lee scrambled to divine his enemy’s intentions. But not even Lee could fully pierce the fog of war.