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Robert E. Lee in war and peace, the photographic history of a Confederate and American icon, Donald A. Hopkins

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index

individual biography

illustrations

index present

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Robert E. Lee in war and peace

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Donald A. Hopkins

the photographic history of a Confederate and American icon

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 repositories and private collections across the country to locate every known Lee image (61 in all) in existence today. The detailed text accompanying these images provides a sweeping history of Lee s life and a compelling discussion of antique photography, with biographical sketches of all of Lee s known photographers. The importance of information within the photographer s imprint or backmark is emphasized throughout the book. Hopkins offers a substantial amount of previously unknown information about these images, how each came to be, and the mistakes in fact and attribution other authors and writers have made describing photographs of Lee to the reading public. Many of the images in this book are being published for the first time. In addition to a few rare photographs and formats that were uncovered during the research phase of Robert E. Lee in War and Peace, the author offers for the first time definitive and conclusive attribution of the identity of the photographer of the well-known Lee in the field images, and reproduces a startling imperial-size photograph of Lee made by Alexander Gardner of Washington, D.C.--Amazon.com

Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1. Antebellum photographs of Robert E. Lee -- Ch. 2. Civil War period photography -- Ch. 3. Robert E. Lee's wartime photographers -- Ch. 4. General Lee as he never was -- Ch. 5. A General steps forward -- Ch. 6. In all his martial splendor -- Ch. 7. Wartime original "From life" images of R.E. Lee -- Ch. 8. Robert E. Lee's postwar photographers -- Ch. 9. A warrior transformed -- Ch. 10. The General mounts up -- Ch. 11. Lee the academician -- Ch. 12. A champion for unity, both North and South -- Ch. 13. The final years -- Ch. 14. Mysteries of time and place -- Ch. 15. The legend lives on -- App. A. Evolution of the daguerreotype portrait -- App. B. A family resemblance -- App. C. The bazaar at Liverpool -- App. D. Lee in profile -- App. E. Prints from photographs -- App. F. An interview with author Donald A. Hopkins -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author