Record #:

26156

Author(s):

Zubritsky, Elizabeth

Abstract:

Historian Tom Buell analyzed library collections of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee’s letters and the government’s official records. After rethinking the Civil War, Buell says our modern perception of Lee’s leadership in the war is based mainly on myth, folklore and nostalgia.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 14 Issue 2, Winter 1998, p22-25, il

Subject(s):

History--Research; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Library