Rebels in Repose: Confederate Commanders After the War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781540241528)

The irascible Jubal A. Early, Robert E. Lee's "bad old man," went to Canada after the war and remained an unreconstructed Rebel until his death. Lee became president of Washington College and urged reconciliation with the North. Braxton Bragg never found solid economic footing and remained mournful of slavery's demise until his own, when a heart attack took him in Galveston. The South's high command traveled dramatically divergent paths after the dissolution of the Confederacy. Their professional reputations were often rewritten accordingly, as the rise of the Lost Cause ideology codified the deification of Lee and the vilification of James Longstreet. Allie Povall shares the stories of nineteen of these former generals, touching briefly on their antebellum and wartime experiences before richly detailing their attempts to salvage livelihoods from the wreckage of America's defining cataclysm.

Author: Allie Stuart Povall
ISBN-10: 1540241521
ISBN-13: 9781540241528
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2019
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d