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Title: Unique insights.
Review: Colonel Taylor was the Adjutant-General of theArmy of Northern Virginia, and Lee's right-hand manat Headquarters. Most of the orders and dispatcheswent out in Taylor's handwriting, and he was uniquelypositioned to observe Lee's thinkingand generalship close-up.In addition, Taylor was responsible for the "returns"(manpower statistics), and so is able to correlatethe accounts of campaigns and battles with theactual strength of Confederate forces. Theconclusion is inescapable: few military commandershave done more, with less, than Lee, and fewerstill can have emerged with his reputation as ahuman being.The book concludes with the Address on the Characterof General R.E. Lee, by Captain John HampdenChamberlayne, delivered in 1876, which is a fineanalysis on the career and character of the greatGeneral.(The numerical rating above is a default settingwith Amazon's format. This reviewer does notemploy numerical ratings.)
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