From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E Lee's Civil War Day by Day, 1861-1865 (Charles R. Knight - CA)

From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E Lee's Civil War, Day by Day 1861-1865 By Charles Knight Douglas S. Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning four-volume study on Robert E. Lee remains the most thorough history of the man. After spending so many years with his subject, Freeman claimed he knew where Lee was every day of his life, from West Point until his death. In fact, there are many gaps in Freeman’s Lee, and hundreds of sources have been discovered in the decades since that have changed many of the accepted “facts” about the general. In From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War, Day by Day, 1861-1865 author Charles Knight does for Lee and students of the war what E. B. Long’s Civil War Day by Day did for our ability to understand the conflict as a whole. This is not another Lee biography, but it is every bit as valuable as one, and perhaps more so.Lost in all of the military histories of the war, and even in most of the Lee biographies, is what the general was doing when