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"In his thematic biography of the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, McCaslin locates the sources of Lee's devotion to Washington and shows how this bond affected his performance as a general in battle. He argues that Lee used the strategy of attrition to attempt to persuade the North to quit just as Washington had wearied the British.
But reliance on Washington as a role model led to tragic irony: in the 1864 campaign it was Lee's Confederates who became trapped like the British in the Yorktown campaign. After his surrender, Lee could no longer emulate Washington the revolutionary, and he became the president of a small college that bore Washington's name and surrounded himself with mementos of his hero."--BOOK JACKET.
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United States, Generals, United States. Army, Influence, Confederate States of America, Sources, Confederate States of America. Army, Biography, Biografie, Biographies, Généraux, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), États confédérés d'Amérique. Army, États-Unis, États confédérés d'Amérique, États-Unis. Army, Lee, robert e. (robert edward), 1807-1870Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Lee in the Shadow of Washington
January 2004, Louisiana State University Press
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2001, Louisiana State University Press
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"Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, declared that the "mystic chords of memory" that bound Americans to the Founding Fathers should bind them to support the Union."
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