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Gallagher, Gary W., author, speaker.

Robert E. Lee and his high command / Professor Gary W. Gallagher.

Course workbook in PDF format edition.

[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company ; Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books, 2004.

©2004

12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM.

A look at Lee and many of the top generals during the years of the Confederacy. Professor Gallagher analysis the generalship of Lee and 13 other generals. The lectures also focus on some younger officers who rose through the ranks as well as Jackson, Longstreet and Early.

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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870.

Generals -- Confederate States of America.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

Audiobooks.

Teaching Company.

Recorded Books, LLC.

Compact discs.

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.

Title from container.

Course no. 8557.

Bonus disc contains course workbook in PDF format.

Lecturer: Professor Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia.

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Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia -- The making of a Confederate general -- Lee's year of fabled victories -- Lee from Gettysburg to Appomattox -- Was Lee an old-fashioned general? -- The making of the mighty "Stonewall" Jackson -- Stonewall Jackson as Lee's "right arm" -- James Longstreet's road to prominence -- Longstreet's later Confederate career -- The rise of Jubal Anderson Early -- Early's path to defeat -- "Jeb" Stuart as soldier and showman -- One promotion too many: A.P. Hill -- Forced from center stage: Richard S. Ewell -- A straight-ahead fighter: John Bell Hood -- Could Robert E. Lee make hard decisions? -- The problem of attrition -- Younger officers I: Robert Emmett Rodes -- Younger officers II: Stephen Dodson Ramseur -- Younger officers III: John Brown Gordon -- Younger officers IV: Edward Porter Alexander -- Gifted but flawed: J.E. Johnston and Beauregard -- Drama and failure: Magruder and Pickett -- Before the bar of history: the lost cause.

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