GDG- The real R.E.Lee

[Margaret D. Blough]

Tom,

There's also a considerable school of thought that the reason that Lee usually travelled with Longstreet's command and not Jackson's was not, as the Lost Causers claimed, that Lee believed he needed to keep a close watch on Longstreet's performance but that Longstreet's mess, and his lively and diverse staff, was just considerably more interesting and relaxing than Jackson's. While Lee was the total opposite of his wastrel father and older half-brother, he was still born and raised a gentleman of Virginia's planter class.

Regards,

Margaret

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From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> <> just seems too sainty to me. What was he really like?>> 
> 
> Joe, 
> 
> You may want to get hold of the book "Reading the Man" A Portrait of Robert 
> E. Lee Through his Private Letters," since it provides a more detailed 
> personality study of Lee than previous biographies. According to the 
> author, Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Lee did not enjoy sitting around chewing the 
> fat with the guys, but apparently never missed a chance to chat up the 
> ladies, especially the young and pretty ones. 
> 
> This is the best all around study of Lee that I have read. The author had 
> access to a lot of new material, and had cooperation of the Lee descendants. 
> 
> Tom Ryan 
> 
> 
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