[CIVIL WAR] LEE'S LIEUTENANTS, A STUDY IN COMMAND. VOL. I: MANASSAS TO MALVERN HILL. VOL. II: CEDAR MOUNTAIN TO CHANCELLORSVILLE. VOL. III: GETTYSBURG TO APPOMATTOX. (THREE VOLUMES)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Mixed Editions. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Three large 8vo. volumes; in the publisher's black cloth bindings; lvi, [lvii], 773 pages including the Index; xlv, [xlvi] 760 pages, including the Index; xlvi[ [xlvii]. 862 pages, including the Index; followed by a large folding map of Battlegrounds of the Army of Northern Virginia; this is a mixed set -- Volumes I and II are reprints from 1946 and 1943 respectively; Volume III is an 1944 First Edition.~~This set has a splendid provenance, coming from the library of R. K. Krick. Mr. Krick was for many years the Chief Historian at the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park and is one of the world's experts on the Army of Northern Virginia.~~He has signed each volume on the front pastedown.~~He recounts being given a set of Lee's Lieutenants when he was a lad of eleven or twelve. He remarked that Mr. Freeman just made the people in Lee's Lieutenants seem evocative and fascinating. I of course inquired whether this was the set! I regret to inform you that it is not.~~Bud Robertson calls this study "The ablest descriptive and evaluative study of the leading generals (and their campaigns) in Lee's army; massively documented, movingly written, highly authoritative, and faintly smug" [Nevins I, 30]. For his part, Eicher considers the set to be "brilliantly written volumes [which] deserve to be read by all Civil War students" [Eicher, 971]. And Harwell asserts that Lee's Lieutenants "stands in its own right as one of the great works of military history" [ITC 61].~~One of the great works, with a great provenance. (Howes F-349, Nevins I, 30; Eicher, 971; ITC 61). Very Good binding.