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George Washington Lee Interviews
Discusses Black control of the Republican Party in Memphis in 1948. Recalls support of the Elks in school desegregation cases. No tape available. Interviewers: James M. Mosby, Jr. and Allen Coleman.
The First Confederate Soldier
George Washington Lee's story, Guarding the Gate City, has been called the great untold epic of the Civil War. His campaigns stretched from Atlanta to Pensacola to Savannah and Richmond, from the swampy Okefenokee to the Appalachian mountains. Literally the first soldier of the Confederate army, he was one of the last men in gray, in one campaign even leading Cherokee warriors. As the Provost Marshal of Atlanta, Lee fought arsonists, bootlegging, counterfeiting, a crime syndicate, deserters, draft evaders, epidemics, espionage, a failing Confederate administration, public panic, thieves, and war resistance. He raised numerous companies for the Southern army. This book presents one of the mos...
George Washington to Henry Lee Discussing His Reluctance in Accepting a Second Term, 20 January 1793
Written as President to Lee, Governor of Virginia, who has congratulated Washington for his re-election. The president writes to say I feel pleasure from the prospect of commencing another tour of duty, would be a departure from truth and continues that it has been my fixed determination to return to the walks of private life, at the end of my term. He concludes with news of acquaintances and his nephew, and sends with Mrs. Washington his best wishes for the new year.
George Washington's Nemesis
This biography attempts to set the record straight for a misunderstood military figure from the American Revolution. Historians and biographers of Charles Lee have treated him as either an enemy of George Washington or a defender of American liberty. Neither approach is accurate; objectivity is required to fully understand the war’s most complicated general. In George Washington’s Nemesis, author Christian McBurney uses original documents (some newly discovered) to combine two dramatic stories to create one balanced view of one of the Revolutionary War’s most fascinating personalities. General Lee, second in command in the Continental Army led by George Washington, was captured by the ...
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington
Former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn reveals how the officer most associated with Washington went to war against the union that Washington had forged.
Colonel Washington and Me
In his old age, former slave William Lee recounts his life and adventures with George Washington.
