Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: His Military and Personal History Embracing a Large Amount of Information Hitherto Unpublished.

LONG, Armstead Lindsay [Robert E. Lee].

Item Number: 139814

New York, Philadelphia and Washington: J. M. Stoddard & Company, 1887.

Second edition of Long’s appreciation of the great military commander with the 1887 publication date on the title page. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece, illustrated with 3 additional plates and 8 folding maps. In very good condition.

Robert E. Lee was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865. A son of Revolutionary War officer Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, Lee was a top graduate of the United States Military Academy and an exceptional officer and military engineer in the United States Army for 32 years. During this time, he served throughout the United States, distinguished himself during the Mexican–American War, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy.