The author of a full-length biography of Robert E. Lee here portrays other men who challenged the Union. Coming under Bradford's penetrating eye are J. E. B. Stuart, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, P.G.T. Beauregard, Judah Benjamin, and others. A dramatic recounting of the Battle of Gettysburg rounds out this collection of profiles from 1912-1914.

A well-researched and exciting tale of the flight of the Confederate Cabinet after the Southern defeat at the end of American Civil War, this book broke new ground, uncovered many new facts and firmly established Alfred Jackson Hanna as a historical scholar. Hanna begins with General Lee's fatal telegram and the hasty exodus of Jefferson Davis and high officials to Danville, then Greensboro and Charlotte. From there the Confederate Cabinet dispersed,...

As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the Confederacy. The strongly negative opinions of Bragg's contemporaries have continued to color assessments of the general's military career and character by...