Robert e lee biography videos kiss

Open Library American Libraries. Search the Wayback Machine Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Sign up for free Log in. Lee : a biography Bookreader Item Preview. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help!

Lee : a biography Bookreader Item Preview. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

Robert e lee biography videos kiss

EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Topics Lee, Robert E. Robert Edward, Confederate States of America. Lee -- Early life, education, and the engineers -- The Mexican War, Texas, and John Brown -- Obscurity, pessimism, and failure -- Lee ascendant -- The high road to Gettysburg -- The tide recedes -- "A stillness at Appomattox" -- Conciliation, diplomacy, and idolization.

There are no reviews yet. Stuart and James Longstreet. Early was a better propagandist than general. He joined Early in falsely alleging that Lee had issued attack orders to Longstreet at Gettysburg at dawn on July 2, Another minister, J. Lee 14 ingained control with Early of the Southern Historical Society, and used its periodic Papers to extol Lee and damn his critics from through Praise for Lee continued unabated in hundreds of books and articles published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Among the other influential books in this period were Robert E. Lee Jr. Lee: Man and Soldier Praise for Lee knew no bounds in this period. He was a public officer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guilt. He was Caesar without his ambition, Frederick without his tyranny, Napoleon without his selfishness, and Washington without his reward.

He was as obedient to authority as a servant and royal in authority as a king. He was as gentle as a woman in life, pure and modest as a virgin in thought, watchful as a Roman vestal, submissive to law as Socrates, and grand in battle as Achilles. The preeminent literary monument to Lee is the classic seven volumes written by Douglas Southall Freeman—the four-volume, Pulitzer Prize—winning R.

He ended the year with the greatest opportunity of his career lost through the blunders and worse of his subordinates. Lee seemed then the very incarnation of knighthood. In his seven volumes of flowing prose and detailed documentation, Freeman depicted Lee as flawless in nearly every way. Lee was brilliant, prescient, humane, intelligent, and virtually unerring.

What imperfections he did have only seemed to make him greater. For example, he was so tolerant of the faults of others his lieutenants, for example that sometimes their mistakes would result in defeats for which Lee would be held responsible. In a nutshell, R. If [signing the instrument of surrender] was the very Gethsemane of his trials, yet he must have had then one moment of supreme, if chastened, joy.

In an instant they were about him, bare-headed, with tear-wet faces; thronging him, kissing his hand, his boots, his saddle; weeping; cheering him amid their tears; shouting his name to the very skies. The idolization did not stop there.