| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse. By Joseph T. Glatthaar. (New York: Free Press, 2008. xviii, 600 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-684-82787-2.)

We have long needed a comprehensive, single-volume history of the Army of Northern Virginia (anv); Joseph T. Glatthaar has provided one. Of impressive depth and scope, General Lee's Army offers a multidisciplinary portrait of one of the world's most celebrated fighting forces, covering not only operations and soldier life but also such diverse topics (often in chapter-length detail) as morale, discipline, religion, medical care, manpower, desertion, and African American support of the army. Glatthaar even appends a statistical sample that provides useful data on the family background, slave ownership, wealth, and other characteristics of Robert E. Lee's troops. Such sophisticated methodology not only gives a face to the anv but helps explain how it survived hardships and privations not suffered by an American army since the darkest days of the Revolution.

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