Linking to Lee (that’s General Lee to you, soldier!)
New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is Benjamin Franklin Cooling’s Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam. In its pages, Cooling tells the story of the summer of 1862, when a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. Counter-Thrust recounts in harrowing detail Robert E. Lee’s flouting of his antagonist George B. McClellan’s drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond and describes the Confederate hero’s long-dreamt-of offensive to reclaim central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac. Here in all its gritty detail and considerable depth is a critical moment in the unfolding of the Civil War and of American history.
There is no shortage of Civil War Web sites, online magazines, and blogs on the Internet. In today’s "Linking in Lincoln," we’ll focus our efforts on sites dedicated to none other than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Ready to start linking? Ready…salute! Forward…march!
Virtually visit Arlington House, the 30-year home of Robert E. Lee and his family (now a National Memorial) by clicking over to
http://www.nps.gov/arho/.
"It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it." Read more from the highly-quotable General Lee on BrainyQuote.com’s
"Robert E. Lee Quotes" page.
Do you know who played Robert E. Lee in the movie
, Gettysburg? If you asked me before my dear fiance made me sit through all 261 minutes of this epic, I would have answered, "Beats me." Now, for better or worse, I can confidently answer that is was Martin Sheen. Don’t believe me? Click
here.
That’s all the Lee linking for today, dear bloggers. See you tomorrow for "This Week in History" and a fun posting from one of our authors.
Linking to Lee (that’s General Lee to you, soldier!)
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