Worthy of the Pulitzer Prize it received. The description of the End at Appomattox is high literature. ( )

1648 R. E. Lee A Biography Volume IV, by Douglas Southall Freeman (read 25 July 1981) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1935) This is the final volume of Freeman's magisterial biography of Lee. This volume covers from 1865 to Oct. 12, 1870, the date of his death. It was extremely interesting, especially the great detail on April 9, 1865, the date of the surrender at Appomattox. Freeman is of course adulatory of Lee, but I believe he was a good man: certainly his attitude after the war was for the good. He became president of Washington College (named Washington & Lee upon Lee's death) at Lexington, Va. I am glad I read these volumes. Will I read Lee's Lieutenants? Not now, maybe some day. [As of 2008 I have not--yet.] ( )