The Court Martial Of Robert E Lee

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The Court Martial Of Robert E Lee

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Author : Douglas Savage
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-03-07

The Court Martial Of Robert E Lee written by Douglas Savage and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-07 with Fiction categories.

On the first day of July 1863, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia accidentally crossed swords with George Gordon Meade’s federal Army of the Potomac. They clashed at a tiny Pennsylvania crossroads called Gettysburg. Three days later, at least 22,000 Confederate men and boys were dead, wounded or captured, and the Yankees held the field when the river of bloodshed finally stopped. Gettysburg was General Lee’s worst defeat on an open field of battle. In The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee, a discouraged Confederate Congress summons General Lee to Richmond in December 1863, to face a board of inquiry on the Battle of Gettysburg. Through this speculative board of inquiry, the reader is drawn into the true history of the Army of Northern Virginia and the real political personalities and true political intrigue of Richmond in 1863. Will General Lee be relieved of command? Perhaps sent into retirement borne of catastrophic failure, leaving behind forever his beloved Army of Northern Virginia? The reader feels his pain and the anguish of a defeated general who wrote four months after Gettysburg that, “My heart and thoughts will always be with this army.”

The Court Martial Of Robert E Lee

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Author : Douglas Savage
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 1995-01-01

The Court Martial Of Robert E Lee written by Douglas Savage and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

An intriguing blend of fact and fiction, this engrossing novel explores the question: What if the Confederacy called Robert E. Lee to account for his tragic failure at Gettysburg? Using a court-martial trial as the novel's centerpiece, Savage weaves an intimate portrait of Lee as a man free of the myths of history.

The Last Years Of Robert E Lee

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Author : Douglas Savage
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-09-15

The Last Years Of Robert E Lee written by Douglas Savage and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

This book details Lee’s life from Gettysburg to his death just five years after the South’s surrender at Appomattox. Rather than retreating bitterly from life, Lee sought to heal the nation, even meeting with his rival, Ulysses S. Grant, while the former Union general occupied the White House. Leaving his military life behind, Lee went on to become president of Washington College, where he was revered for his fairness as well as his willingness to help struggling students.

The Secret Trial Of Robert E Lee

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Author : Thomas Fleming
language : en
Publisher: New Word City
Release Date : 2018-01-30

The Secret Trial Of Robert E Lee written by Thomas Fleming and has been published by New Word City this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-30 with Fiction categories.

1865. The Civil War is over, and the South lies in ruins. But for some people, former slaveholders have not been punished enough. A cabal of powerful men, led by Charles A. Dana, the assistant secretary of war, plot to break the spirit of the South once and for all - by convicting General Robert E. Lee of treason and hanging him like a common criminal. To this end, they have convened a secret military tribunal in Lee's former home in Arlington, Virginia. Jeremiah O'Brien of the New-York Tribune, a long-time protégé of Dana's, is the only reporter allowed to attend the trial. His exclusive reports on this momentous event, and the book he intends to write, will surely make his fortune. Yet as the trial proceeds, pitting the general against his accusers, O'Brien finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dana, his love for a Confederate spy, and his growing respect and compassion for Lee himself. The young reporter is supposed to be only an observer, but, in the end, it is O'Brien who must evaluate the evidence and determine the true meaning of honor. Written by New York Times bestselling author and historian Thomas Fleming, The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee brings to life a fascinating chapter in American history that might well have happened - and perhaps truly did.

Proceedings Of A General Court Martial Held At Brunswick In The State Of New Jersey By Order Of His Excellency Gen Washington Commander In Chief Of The Army Of The United States Of America For The Trial Of Major General Lee July 4th 1778

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Author : Charles Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864

Proceedings Of A General Court Martial Held At Brunswick In The State Of New Jersey By Order Of His Excellency Gen Washington Commander In Chief Of The Army Of The United States Of America For The Trial Of Major General Lee July 4th 1778 written by Charles Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with Courts-martial and courts of inquiry categories.

Proceedings Of A General Court Martial Held At Brunswick In The State Of New Jersey By Order Of General Washington For The Trial Of Major General Lee Etc With A Mezzotint Portrait

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Author : Charles LEE (Major-General, U.S. Service.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1778

Proceedings Of A General Court Martial Held At Brunswick In The State Of New Jersey By Order Of General Washington For The Trial Of Major General Lee Etc With A Mezzotint Portrait written by Charles LEE (Major-General, U.S. Service.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1778 with categories.

The Lost Indictment Of Robert E Lee

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Author : John Reeves
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-07-15

The Lost Indictment Of Robert E Lee written by John Reeves and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-15 with History categories.

History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a “model to men who would be morally great.” Douglas Southall Freeman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography of Lee, described his subject as “one of a small company of great men in whom there is no inconsistency to be explained, no enigma to be solved.” Winston Churchill called him “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.” Until recently, there was even a stained glass window devoted to Lee's life at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Immediately after the Civil War, however, many northerners believed Lee should be hanged for treason and war crimes. Americans will be surprised to learn that in June of 1865 Robert E. Lee was indicted for treason by a Norfolk, Virginia grand jury. In his instructions to the grand jury, Judge John C. Underwood described treason as “wholesale murder,” and declared that the instigators of the rebellion had “hands dripping with the blood of slaughtered innocents.” In early 1866, Lee decided against visiting friends while in Washington, D.C. for a congressional hearing, because he was conscious of being perceived as a “monster” by citizens of the nation’s capital. Yet somehow, roughly fifty years after his trip to Washington, Lee had been transformed into a venerable American hero, who was highly regarded by southerners and northerners alike. Almost a century after Appomattox, Dwight D. Eisenhower had Lee’s portrait on the wall of his White House office. The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee tells the story of the forgotten legal and moral case that was made against the Confederate general after the Civil War. The actual indictment went missing for 72 years. Over the past 150 years, the indictment against Lee after the war has both literally and figuratively disappeared from our national consciousness. In this book, Civil War historian John Reeves illuminates the incredible turnaround in attitudes towards the defeated general by examining the evolving case against him from 1865 to 1870 and beyond.

The Court Martial Of General John Pope

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Author : Steven Condon
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2013-02

The Court Martial Of General John Pope written by Steven Condon and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02 with Fiction categories.

Newcomer Steven E. Condon''s breakthrough analysis and novel presentation of one of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson''s most celebrated Civil War victories, Second Manassas (a.k.a. Second Bull Run), is full of surprises. The list includes a mistaken mountain, a warning that never was, and John Pope''s supposed real plan for entrapping Stonewall Jackson-a plan that Condon claims could have worked, had it only been implemented as Pope had ordered it. No, "The Court-Martial of General John Pope" is not alternate history. And, no, the many startling insights and new discoveries within this book are not fictions, even though they are presented inside the framework of a fictional trial taking place in the afterlife.It seems that the much maligned Union general John Pope has demanded a trial in order to once and for all clear his military reputation from 150 years of accumulated slights, slanders, and misconceptions. And who is defending Pope in the Valhalla Courthouse? None other than that peerless American defense attorney Clarence Darrow.The packed courtroom blazes with electricity and occasionally thunders in outrage as the wily Darrow pulls one white rabbit after another out of his well-stocked magician''s hat in a performance that rivals his very best. But Darrow has his work cut out for him as he faces a tribunal as daunting as any that ever sat in judgment at Nuremberg, packed as it is with the ablest generals of history; ranging across the centuries from Alexander the Great to America''s George S. Patton, these masters of the military art have-like all others-long considered Pope to be a laughingstock. Equally entertaining are the events outside the courtroom as twice each day three noted members of the press corps-including Mark Twain and Nellie Bly-furiously debate among themselves the merits of Darrow''s long string of revelations. Readers can enjoy the excitement of courtroom drama as they thrill to some of the most startling discoveries in Civil War history in recent times and discover one of the fiercest but least known rivalries in American history.This is because "Court-Martial" boasts as one of its centerpieces a rivalry that Condon reveals to be one of the most fascinating in American history: the fierce competition between Union General John Pope, the darling of the radical Republicans, and Union General George McClellan, the military standard bearer of the conservative Democratic Party and later Abraham Lincoln''s Democratic opponent for President in 1864. Condon''s book convincingly demonstrates for perhaps the first time the true depth and terrible impact of this fateful rivalry.President Obama''s June 2010 removal of General Stanley McChrystal from command of American forces in Afghanistan was not the first case of a US commander-in-chief experiencing a strained relationship with one of his senior generals while in the midst of waging a difficult war. Harry Truman had his share of troubles with the imperious Douglas MacArthur in the Korean War. And before both these Presidents, Abraham Lincoln suffered the misfortune of being saddled with the vain, contemptuous, and overly cautious George McClellan.But whereas both Truman and Obama were decisive in ridding themselves of their troublesome general, Lincoln was not. Although privately favoring the replacement of McClellan with Pope, the President did not want to anger the Democrats by openly removing McClellan from command. So instead he attempted to surreptitiously feed McClellan''s army bit by bit to Pope, an act of political equivocation that led him down a twisting path that ultimately left Lincoln feeling, in his own words, "controlled" by "circumstances" and stranded in a situation "with no remedy at present." This state of affairs proved disastrous for Pope and perhaps for the Union as well, as Condon demonstrates.Competing with the Pope-McClellan rivalry for attention is the drama of the controversy that spurred one of the most celebrated and politically volatile court cases of the latter half of the 19th Century, the fifteen-year conflict between John Pope and the general officer who was court-martialed and drummed out of the army for not giving Pope his full support at Second Manassas-Major General Fitz John Porter, noted friend and protégé of George McClellan. Darrow hammers away as mercilessly at McClellan and Porter as he does at Confederate icon Stonewall Jackson, often times igniting in the audience a maelstrom of fury that occasionally threatens to shut down the trial.Condon''s book provides a wealth of evidence detailed in over 300 end notes. Although this list includes some important new finds, much of Condon''s evidence surprisingly comes from that picked over old gold field "War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies". This hundred-volume collection of thick black, gold embossed books published by the U.S. government in the 1880''s is crammed full of thousands of military telegrams, dispatches, and post battle reports, forming what many consider to be the "bible" of Civil War historians. Yet Condon manages to find new and sometimes radically different insights in telegrams previously cited by many Civil War writers before him.Some historians and Civil War aficionados will object to Condon''s placement of his new evidence and his new interpretations of old evidence inside a dramatic fictional story instead of placing it within the traditional setting of a purely non-fictional military campaign study. In his defense Condon points to the extreme degree to which John Pope''s military reputation has been unintentionally misrepresented and the 150 years for which this has gone on. He argues that in order to shake the public''s long frozen opinion of John Pope free from its icebound state, the setting of a trial and the skills of an advocate of the caliber of Clarence Darrow were required. According to Condon, John Pope was "court-martialed" after the Second Manassas Campaign, but the trial took place in the courtroom of history rather than before a military tribunal. His new book represents Pope''s second day in court-something that has been a long time in coming. To those who consider this placement of fact in the context of dramatic fiction to be unfortunate, Condon hopes nevertheless that they will still enjoy his tale.

The Trial Of Robert E Lee

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Author : R. A. Mikolajczak
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2007-11

The Trial Of Robert E Lee written by R. A. Mikolajczak and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11 with Courts-martial and courts of inquiry categories.

After the Battle of Gettysburg, the Army of Northern Virginia was battered, but not broken. General Robert E. Lee rallied his troops for a return to Virginia, fighting a series of brilliant rear-guard actions while being relentlessly pursued by the Federal Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George Gordon Meade and his superior, General Ulysses S. Grant. Ultimately, the Army of Northern Virginia found itself under siege in the Virginia city of Petersburg. Repeated assaults by the Army of the Potomac resulted in Lee's forces nearly being encircled. In a bold move, Lee was determined to break the siege, and strike towards the West, in an effort to join forces with the Army of Tennessee. Unfortunately for him, Lee's forces were cut off near Appomattox Courthouse. In an effort to stop the bloodshed, and end the war, Lee surrendered to Grant at that place, directing his men to relinquish their arms, and once again become faithful citizens of the United States. During Lee's retreat into Virginia, a bloody battle took place at the crossroads of Cold Harbor, VA, the second such fight to take place at that location during the Civil War. At one point in the battle, as a testament to the tenacity of Lee's troops and the sheer determination of the Federal forces pursuing them, the Confederate forces at one point inflicted as many as seven thousand casualties in one twenty-minute period on the Federal army. Still, the Federals and the Confederates did not give up the fight. This book tells the story of what might have happened had the Confederate commanders elected to halt the fighting, and stop the needless slaughter, at this point in the war During the first week of June 1864, the Federal Army, under their new commander, Ulysses S. Grant, suffered horrendous casualties at a small place called Cold Harbor, just north of the Chickahominy River in Virginia. Instead of pulling back to regroup and reassemble his army, as previous Federal commanders had when casualties became too great, the losses enraged Grant. He bypassed the commander of the Army of the Potomac, General George Gordon Meade, and took command himself, gathering his corps commanders and directing them to mass their troops and throw every available man, including clerks and teamsters, directly at the center of the Confederate line. This portion of the line was held by Major General George E. Pickett, still bitter and stinging from the ill-fated charge at Gettysburg nearly a year earlier. As he watched the approach of the mass of Federal Blue, he was heard to say, "I'll not sacrifice my boys again."

Great Military Leaders

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Author : William T. Worthington
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2002

Great Military Leaders written by William T. Worthington and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Generals categories.

Great Military Leaders - A Bibliography with Vignettes