Damage Them All You Can: Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia Book

More than just military history, George Walshs narrative digs deeper, revealing the humanity of Lee and his lieutenants as never beforetheir nobility and their flaws, their chilling acceptance of death, their tender relations with sweethearts in the midst of all of the carnage that was the American Civil War.The Civil War is one year old in 1862 when the fifty-five-year-old Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Army of Northern Virginia. Damage them all you can, he exhorts his men. His army, ragtag in uniform and elite in spirit, responds ferociously in one battle after another, from the Seven Days and the Valley Campaign through Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, to the final siege of Richmond and Petersburg.Here we encounter in depth the officers who stir the imagination: the dutiful Lee, Stonewall Jackson, stolid James Longstreet, egotistical Jeb Stuart, and many others.Read More