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Robert E. Lee

by Brandon Marie Miller

Ages: 12+

Published: 2019

Publisher: Calkins Creek/Highlights

ISBN: 978-1-62979-910-0

Keywords: United States Civil War, Slavery, Reconstruction

This solidly researched biography, with extensive sources and bibliography, illuminates the public and private life of a man revered as a hero by many, but as a traitor by some. Photographs.