Four Years with General Lee [Paperback]

... it offers a sure, quick, eyewitness assessment of all Lee's campaigns. Southern Partisan

Walter Taylor was first to last the closest of all staff officers to General Robert E. Lee, and his intimate relationship with his commander gives Taylor's writings signal importance in any study of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. A recognized classic, Four Years with General Lee first appeared in 1877 and was a collector's item by the turn of the century. This annotated edition, first published in 1962, was prepared by noted Civil War historian James I. Robertson, Jr., who has provided a new introduction for this paperback reissue.

JAMES I. ROBERTSON, JR., is Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at Virginia Tech. His books include General A. P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior, Soldiers Blue and Gray, and The Civil War Virginia: Battleground for a Nation.

Chapter I.
Organization of the Army of Virginia.General R. E. Lee assigned to the Command of the State Troops.Transfer to the Southern Confederacy

Chapter II.
General Lee retained in Richmond as Adviser to President Davis.Disaster to the Confederate Forces under General Garnett.General Lee sent to Northwest Virgina.Lamentable Condition of Affairs in that Department.

Chapter III.
Strength and Positions of the Opposing Armies in Northwest Virginia.General Lee determines to take the Offensive.Ineffectual Attempt to carry the Positions held by the Federal Troops.Responsibility for the Failure

Chapter IV.
Affairs in Southwestern Virginia.Want of Harmony between Generals Floyd and Wise.General Lee Proceeds to that Section.Preparations to resist General Rosecrans.Retreat of the Federals

Chapter V.
General Lee repairs to Richmond.-He is ordered to the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.His Return thence to Richmond.He is charged with the Control of the Military Operations of all of the Confererate Armies.His Duties inlX