Gray Fox - Robert E. Lee And The Civil War

Of all the awe-inspiring, monumental - and beloved - figures of the Civil War, probably no other holds a place of such honor and importance as General Robert E. Lee. The author of the much-praised, widely read They Called Him Stonewall: A Life of Lieutenant General T.J. Jackson, C.S.A., has now written the first single volume covering Lee's great role in the Civil War. It presents not only a wonderfully lucid picture of the entire war in the East, but vitalizes one of the most romantic and inspiring figures of American history. It separates the man from the myth but, amazingly enough, makes the great man ever more admirable.

This is a narrative life, told in more dramatic style than has been previously attempted, but based firmly on eyewitness accounts, Lee's letters and dispatches, and his recorded conversations. It covers all events in Lee's war career: his decision to stand by Virginia, the disappointing campaign in West Virginia, his first major command, and the victorious Seven Days.

Through these pages, the imposing figure of Lee moves on to Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and finally to the trenches around Richmond and Petersburg, ending with one of the most moving accounts of Appomattox yet written.

Burke Davis's particular flair for the immediate you-are-there quality has never been better displayed than in Gray Fox - a book that will assure for him an honored place among the new writers who have explored with such important results the great cataclysm of our past.