Lee
The Last Years

The timing was ripe to read this book. It seems every week I watch another news story of a statue of this man being removed. It is a different time than even 20-30 years ago, around the time of the Ken Burns documentary, when interest in the Civil War was rekindled. Who was this man and why should h......more

I thought I'd like this book, but I was unprepared for how moving it was. At 14 or 16, Lee was my ideal. Coming back to him after almost a quarter century without any life or death campaigns to my credit and with more awareness of how extraordinary his self-discipline was and how ordinary mine is, t......more

When I was a girl, I read several biographies that presented Confederate general Robert E. Lee as the epitome of a Christian gentleman. I’ve long been curious to revisit Lee’s story from a more nuanced and adult perspective. I wanted to know whether or not he was really as admirable a man as my chil......more

This book covers the last five years of Robert E. Lee's life, from the evacuation of Richmond and Petersburg in 1865 to his death in 1870. After the Civil War, Lee was at risk of being arrested and tried for treason. He was never put on trial, in part due to the influence of U.S. Grant. Lee did test......more

"Let 'em up easy." - Lincoln I'm always a bit amused by the intense passion that the Civil War generates among the younger crowd these days. Granted, it's not the War itself that generates the passion, but usually various memorials to it. Granted, the ACW has been part of our history for 150+ years s......more