| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Antebellum Photographs of Robert E. Lee; Chapter 2: Civil War Period Photography; Chapter 3: Robert E. Lee's Wartime Photographers; Chapter 4: General Lee as He Never Was; Chapter 5: A General Steps Forward; Chapter 6: In All His Martial Splendor; Chapter 7: Wartime Original "From Life" Images of R.E. Lee; Chapter 8: Robert E. Lee's Postwar Photographers; Chapter 9: A Warrior Transformed; Chapter 10: The General Mounts Up; Chapter 11: Lee the Academician. |
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Chapter 12: A Champion for Unity, Both North and SouthChapter 13: The Final Years; Chapter 14: Mysteries of Time and Place; Chapter 15: The Legend Lives On; Appendix A: Evolution of the Daguerreotype Portrait; Appendix B: A Family Resemblance; Appendix C: The Bazaarat Liverpool; Appendix D: Lee in Profile; Appendix E: Prints from Photographs; Appendix F: An Interview with Author Donald A. Hopkins; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of one of America's most famous sons. It has been almost seven decades since anyone has attempted a serious study of Lee in photographs, and with Don Hopkins's painstakingly researched and lavishly illustrated Robert E. Lee in War and Peace, the wait is finally over. Dr. Hopkins, a Mississippi surgeon and lifelong student of the Civil War and Southern history with a recent interest in Robert E. Lee's ""from life"" photographs, scoured manuscript reposi. |
| Subject |
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 -- Pictorial works.
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Confederate States of America. Army -- Pictorial works.
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Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870. (OCoLC)fst00053327
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Confederate States of America. Army. (OCoLC)fst00539981
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American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
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Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography -- Pictorial works.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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United States -- Confederate States of America.
(OCoLC)fst01205435
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| Chronological Term |
1861 - 1865
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| Genre/Form |
Biography -- Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423829
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hopkins, Donald A., 1940- Robert E. Lee in war and peace 9781611211207 (DLC) 2013003600 (OCoLC)807024404 |
| ISBN |
9781611211214 (electronic bk.) |
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1611211212 (electronic bk.) |
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