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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. By Gary W. Gallagher. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xvi, 298 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-8071-2286-6.)

Gary W. Gallagher is one of the profession's most influential and popular Civil War military historians and demonstrates why in Lee and His Generals in War and Memory, a collection of thirteen essays, two of them new, the rest revised but previously published. Most evaluate the military reputations of various Confederate generals—Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. Jackson, Jubal A. Early, James Longstreet, John B. Magruder, Ambrose P. Hill, and Richard S. Ewell—by focusing on specific engagements. They revolve around such questions as: "What of Lee's dismissal of Longstreet's proposed flanking movement" at Gettysburg?; or, did "contemporaries" and "later critics, judge fairly in evaluating" Jackson's and Early's respective campaigns in the valley of Virginia? In judging the performance of the Confederate generals, Gallagher displays his command of the primary and secondary literature, his skill at describing battles, and the judiciousness with which he reaches and renders his conclusions. . . .

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