Gary W. Gallagher
Contributor
BIOGRAPHY
John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War Emeritus, University of Virginia. Author of Lee and His Army in Confederate History; Causes, Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War; and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Robert E. Lee was a U.S. Army officer (1829–61), Confederate general (1861–65), college president (1865–70), and central figure in contending memory traditions of the American Civil War. Robert Edward Lee was the son of Henry (“Light-horse Harry”) Lee and Ann Hill Carter Lee. His father had been a…
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