Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865

In this reexamination of the last two years of Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Rafuse offers a clear, informative, and insightful account of Lee's ultimately unsuccessful struggle to defend the Confederacy against a relentless and determined foe. This book provides a comprehensive, yet concise and entertaining narrative of the battles and campaigns that highlighted this phase of the war and analyzes the battles and Lee's generalship in the context of the steady deterioration of the Confederacy's prospects for victory.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Chancellorsville and Its Antecedents
Chapter 2: From the Rappahannock to the Susquehanna
Chapter 3: Gettysburg
Chapter 4: Waltzing with General Meade
Chapter 5: Winter and a New Foe
Chapter 6: The Furnace of 1864
Chapter 7: To and Across the James
Chapter 8: A Mere Question of Time
Chapter 9: To Appomattox
Chapter 10: The Fall of the Confederacy
Bibliographic Essay

About the author

Ethan S. Rafuse is associate professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff college at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His previous books include McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union, George Gordon Meade and the War in the East, and A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and the Battle of Manassas.

Product details

• Authors: Ethan Rafuse, Ethan S Rafuse, Ethan S. Rafuse, Ethan Sepp Rafuse
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2008
• EAN: 9780742551251
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5125-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era; American Crisis; American Crisis Series: Books; The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era; American Crisis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)