an unquestioned masterpiece of the historians art and a towering landmark in the literature of the american civil warin gettysburg to appomattox douglas southall freeman concludes his monumental threevolume study of lees command of the confederacy a dramatic history that brings to vivid life the men in that command and the part each played in this countrys most tragic strugglevolume three continues the stirring account of lees army from the costly battle at gettysburg through the deepening twilight of the souths declining military might to the tragic inward collapse of lees command and his formal surrender in 1865 to his unparalleled descriptions of lees subordinates and the operations in which they participated dr freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons that were to be learned from the story of the army of northern virginia and their bearing upon the future military development of the nationas in the first two volumes portrait photographs military maps several appendixes and a bibliography add to the clarity and richness of the book the complete threevolume study lees lieutenants is a classic touchstone in the literature of american biography and in all the literature of war