Robert E. Lee issued Special Order 191 during the Maryland campaign, before the Battle of Antietam. A copy of the order having been lost, was recovered by ...
After disobeying Robert E. Lee's orders to avoid a general engagement at Gettysburg, Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell received an order to 'press those people.
to Turtledove with Robert E. Lee advancing up to Pennsylvania and winning the decisive victory in an early version of the Battle of Gettysburg.
A 15,000-man strong column under General George Pickett was organized, and Lee ordered a massive bombardment of the Union positions. The 10,000 Federals ...
Lee's granitic conviction that everything is God's will, however, he was born to lose.
In May 1863, Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had
Instead of following Lee's orders, wrote Freeman, Longstreet was
Guelzo, Allen C. "The Spy and Robert E. Lee: Gettysburg's "Lost" Order, June 28, 1863." Civil War Monitor 2.1 (Spring 2012). This item is not available in The ...
At the Battle of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee made a mistake that doomed the hopes of the Confederate States of America to compel the United ...
Again ignoring the advice and pleas of Longstreet, Lee canceled Longstreet's early morning orders for a flank attack and instead ordered the suicidal assault ...