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Title: R. E. Lee: Volume 2
Author: Douglas Southall Freeman
Narrator: Charlton Griffin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-05-18
Publisher: Audio Connoisseur
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
Volume Two opens in March, 1862 with Lee back in Richmond after a lengthy absence. He was shocked by the chaos and panic evident in the Confederate capital. McClellan had assembled a superbly equipped army of over 100,000 soldiers which Virginians feared might invade at any time. In May, McClellan began to move his huge Army of the Potomac up the peninsula and so close to Richmond that church steeples were within his view. The situation seemed hopeless, especially with another large Union army under General Banks to the north in the Shenandoah Valley.
But in late May, after a few weeks of desultory fighting and maneuvering, General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, fell wounded. Lee assumed command. By the end of June, Lee had miraculously driven all Federal forces from the state. With consummate skill, Lee reorganized the Confederate forces and during the following year, with armies half the size of the Union's, defeated one Federal invasion after the other. But time was running out for the South, and omens of coming disaster loomed. Missed opportunities and dwindling manpower were menacing signs.
Then, in May, 1863, a triumphant Confederate victory at Chancellorsville was marred by dreadful news: the death of the one man Lee could not afford to lose.
Listeners are urged to follow battles using the maps which Freeman himself drew, and which are included in the accompanying downloadable PDF document.
Critic Reviews:
"Lee complete for all time." (The New York Times)
Members Reviews:
Freeman's faults, in an overall masterpiece
Freeman wrote a great biography of Lee, but Freeman failed in not doing the research on T. Jackson that he'd done on Lee, while insisting on blaming T. Jackson for the failure of Lee's plan to bag the Potomac army on the Peninsula in 1862. Also, Freeman was light on exposing the racism of the times which infected most relations between white and black, from both sections, North and South.
Stonewall Jackson's vindication appears in Robertson's "Stonewall Jackson," Robertson's "Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims," and Williams's "Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend." Also, refer to the DVD, "Stonewall Jackson: Still Standing." I recommend all these sources if you truly desire a deep understanding of T. Jackson.
Racism and slavery are an abomination to God. Stonewall was a man who, like many before, had grown up and lived in a country cursed with an English monarch's bad decision to allow slavery in his overseas agricultural plantations.. But Stonewall was a good Christian, and a superior soldier.
Freeman wrote thee biography of Lee, with an unfortunate sniping of Stonewall that I guess Lee would have scorned outright. Battle is not like a math equation. Many times one side's numbers do not equal the other side's result. Why? As Lee and Stonewall would have said: Men fight the battle; God determines the outcome.
God bless you.
No Question About It...THE Biography of Lee For All Time...
The story is well told how Douglas Southall Freeman went on to write this four volume magnum opus. Born in 1886, the son of Confederate veteran Walker Burford Freeman, young Douglas grew up in the sunny remembrances of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia.
