Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th November 1886, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1384

WILL BE EEADY IN A FEW DAYS . MEMOIRS OF ROBERT E . isEE , 3 h HtHtarn Wizitxrn anfr Hmtromntre BY A . L . LONG , Military Secretary to Gen . Lee , Army afterward of Northern Brig .-Ge Vi n rg . and inia , Chief of Artillery Second Corps , TOGETHER WITH INCIDENTS RELATING TO HIS PRIVATE LIFE , AND MATERIAL OF A PERSONAL CHARACTER , ALSO A LARGE AMOUNT OF HISTORICAL INFORMATION HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED , COLLECTED AND EDITED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF MARCUS J . WRIGHT , Formerly Brig .-Gen , Army of Tennessee ^ and Agent of the United States for the Collection of Confederate Records , One Volume Octavo , of about 700 pages , cloth , extra , price 18 s . by reproduction the The kindn book ess contains of of the owners beautiful steel- and plate never ' portraits Recumbent before of published Statue Gen , Lee , ' , by from and iVal includes original entine , pictures a which steel-plate now lent the stands used text by over G and en . the report Lee tomb during s accompanying at his Lexington campaigns , . Va , . and Many are of of the the maps highest are value from as the illustrating originals General Robert K . Lee has had many biographers ; numerous works have been devoted to hh career ; but none of them adequately portray the man in all the various relations of life . There is wanting an account of the military life and campaigns of this illustrious soldier which shall be at once accurate in information , complete in detail , and authentic in every particular . Manifestly , such a book can only be writtea by one who possesses a personal and intimate knowledge movements of the of individual armi « s in himself a clear , and who forcible has the way necessary , and who qual was ifications entitled to to place the upon confidence record of the the intricate leader b day y whom s of the those war m to ovements the final were closing directed , scede . at Such Appomattox a man is he General was in direct A . L . Long personal . From association the earliest with intimate important General Lee relations orders . As were with his put his JMilitary in commander force Secretary , and , afterward and he occup was , ied as the a a position Chief medium of which Artillery through made , which General him also a Long gre an at actor was number still in tie of in many important movements and great battles of the Virginia campaigns . This work of General Long is the carefully-matured product of years of study and labour . Asa result been in of his the later arduous years work total of ly active deprived service of si and ght . the He exposures thus has incident been able to campai to concentrate gns , the writer upon this Iva . s single work a thought and attention which few men can ever hope to equal , and the result is a book which will take rank with the best military works of tho times . It takes up tlie history of General Lee from the time of his appointment as cadot , recites tlio distinguished command of the part Virg which inia troops he took in in 1861 the , Mexican through War all , the and various follows vicissitudes him from of the march time ho and assumed battle , down to the close of the campaign which finally docided the war . London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEAKLE & RIVINGTON , i Crown Buildings , 188 Fleet Street , E . C . I

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