Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command by Douglas Southhall Freeman, First Edition, Three Volume Set, 1942

Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1942, 1943, 1944. First edition. Three volume set. Rebound in ¼  black leather and cloth, with raised bands, gilt tooling and titles to the spine, and an archival slipcase.  Presented is a first edition, three volume set of Lee’s Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman. The three volumes were published in 1942, 1943, and 1944 and discuss the various leaders of the Army of Northern Virginia serving under Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War. The volumes have been beautifully rebound in ¼ black leather and cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt tooling, and gilt titles to the spine, and new marbled endpapers, and a custom archival slipcase to match. Each book begins with a photograph and a short narrative on the figures before setting the multiple biographies against the backdrop of the Civil War. Volume I begins with Beauregard’s orders to Virginia and Volume III ends with the col