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Crucible of Command is excellent military history and personal analysis of the leadership and life of Grant and Lee
Two men molded their nation during the Civil War. Robert Edward Lee the Commander and almost saint like figure of the Southern Confederacy was born into a famous family. His family fell on hard times as his father Light Horse Harry Lee, a Revolutionary War hero and former governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia fell into debt. His brother was also mired in scandal and debt. Robert took care of his invalid mother Ann Carter Lee'; graduated second in his class from West Point'; served with glory in the Mexican War'; became the supt. of West Point and arrested John Brown during the Harper s Ferry Raid of 1859. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia to such great victories as the Seven Days, Second Manassas, Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville before losing at Gettysburg and the Wilderness. Following the Civil War he served as president of tiny Washington College in Lexington, Va. Davis describes Lee as a formal and sometimes forbidding man who owned slaves. He was very conservative and...

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