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Name: Richard G. Williams, Jr.
Location: Shenandoah Valley, US

"From Virginia sprung the Southern Mind, a mind which favoured the local community, Burkean conservatism, the folkways of ancestors, an unwavering orthodox Christian faith." ~ Alphonse Vinh

28 February 2006

Another Lee Book?


I've just completed reading a wonderful book about Robert E. Lee. Lee: The Last Years, by Charles Bracelen Flood, is one of the best little biographies of Lee I've ever read. Similar in content to Franklin Riley's Robert E. Lee After Appomattox, Flood's book goes much deeper into the details of General Lee's life after he had accepted the presidency of Washington College in the little back water mountain village that was Lexington, Virginia. Beginnining with a moving account of Lee's surrender, the book gives a delightful, yet sad, portrait of Lee's burden bearing after the war as he led the South by his sublime example of Christian manhood. I highly recommend it, especially if you are only familiar with Lee's military genius.

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