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Lee and His Generals in War and Memory By Gary W Gallagher. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xvi, 298 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8071-2286-6.)
Gary W Gallagher is one of the professions most influential and popular Civil War military historians and demonstrates why in Lee and His Generals in War and Memory, a collection of thirteen essays, two of them new, the rest revised but previously published. Most evaluate the military reputations of various Confederate generals-Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. Jackson, Jubal A. Early, James Longstreet, John B. Magruder, Ambrose P Hill, and Richard S. Ewell-by focusing on specific engagements. They revolve around such questions as: "What of Lee's dismissal of Longstreet's proposed flanking movement" at Gettysburg?; or, did "contemporaries" and "later critics, judge fairly in evaluating" Jackson's and Early's respective campaigns in the valley of Virginia?...