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    Lee - Paperback

    Lee - Paperback

    By Douglas Southall Freeman
  • Lees Lieutenants 3 Volume Abridged: A Study in Command

    Lees Lieutenants 3 Volume Abridged: A Study in Command - Paperback

    Lees Lieutenants 3 Volume Abridged: A Study in Command - Paperback

    By Douglas Southall Freeman

About Douglas Southall Freeman Books

Douglas Southall Freeman was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1886, the son of a Confederate soldier. After receiving a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University at the age of twenty-two, he embarked on a newspaper career. He was named the editor of the Richmond News Leader at the age of twenty-nine, a post he would hold for thirty-four years. In 1915, Freeman was commissioned to write a one-volume biography of Robert E. Lee; twenty years later, his four-volume R. E. Lee won the Pulitzer Prize. The three volumes of Lee's Lieutenants took him a relatively modest eight years to complete. He won another Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume biography of George Washington, which he finished only hours before his death in 1953.