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Article: Glatthaar, Joseph T.: General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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Glatthaar, Joseph T.
General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse
New York: Free Press
600 pp., $35.00, ISBN 978-0-6848-2787-2
Publication Date: Match 2008
Is there anything new to be said about the eastern theater of operations in the American Civil War? History professor Joseph T. Glatthaar, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, thinks so. He distinguishes his new book from Douglas Southall Freeman's studies of the Army of Northern Virginia and from the myriad other studies of General Robert E. Lee, his army, and the fighting in the eastern theater of war by noting his intention to "[embark] upon a major ...