Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of one of America s most famous sons. It has been almost seven decades since anyone has attempted a serious study of Lee in photographs, and with Don Hopkins s painstakingly researched and lavishly illustrated Robert E. Lee in War and Peace, the wait is finally over.
Dr. Hopkins, a Mississippi surgeon and lifelong student of the Civil War and Southern history with a recent interest in Robert E. Lee s from life photographs, scoured manuscript...
Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of on...