title: One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4 - 14, 1863
author:  Eric J. Wittenberg 
description: an excellent military history of the fighting following Gettysburg and the problems in the pursuit. (<i>Civil War Courier</i>)<br /><br />"...Is there anything left unwritten about the Gettysburg Campaign? Absolutely, and this book is but one example. It is a must have for any student of the Civil War, and especially for a student of the Gettysburg Campaign." (<i>Civil War Notebook</i>)<br /><br />"includes many previously unknown or little used sources... a fresh and detailed retreat account" (<i>Civil War TIMES WEIDER</i>)<br /><br />"text and primary sources smoothly fit together unlike some book which are just a collection of primary sources with no real transition language between them deserves a spot in any Civil War historians library because of the authors detailed account and analysis of the days following the battle of Gettysburg." (<i>Collected Miscellany</i>)<br /><br />most likely the definitive book covering the battles &amp; skirmishes with all the major players associated with the time period One cant help but enjoy the well done narrative with such fine, thorough detail. (<i>The Midwest Book Review</i>)<br /><br />popular history at its best- simultaneously engaging and educating. (<i>The Midwest Book Review</i>)
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  # A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John Esten Cooke
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page copyright © 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PART I. LEE'S EARLY LIFE.
  
  
    
  I. INTRODUCTION.
  
  
    
  II. THE LEES OF VIRGINIA.
  
  
    
  III. GENERAL “LIGHT-HORSE HARRY” LEE.
  
  
    
  IV. STRATFORD.
  
  
    
  V. LEE'S EARLY MANHOOD AND CAREER IN THE UNITED
  
  
  STATES ARMY.
  
  
    
  VI. LEE AND SCOTT.
  
  
    
  VII. LEE RESIGNS.
  
  
    
  VIII. HIS RECEPTION AT RICHMOND.
  
  
    
  IX. LEE IN 1861.
  
  
    
  X. THE WAR BEGINS.
  
  
    
  XI. LEE'S ADVANCE INTO WESTERN VIRGINIA.
  
  
    
  XII. LEE'S LAST INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP MEADE.
  
  
  PART II. IN FRONT OF RICHMOND.
  
  
    
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  II. JOHNSTON IS WOUNDED.
  
  
    
  III. LEE ASSIGNED TO THE COMMAND—HIS FAMILY AT THE
  
  
  WHITE HOUSE.
  
  
    
  IV. LEE RESOLVES TO ATTACK.
  
  
    
  V. STUART'S “RIDE AROUND McCLELLAN.”
  
  
  PART III. ON THE CHICKAHOMINY.
  
  
    
  I. THE TWO ARMIES.
  
  
    
  II. LEE'S PLAN OF ASSAULT.
  
  
    
  III. THE BATTLE OF THE CHICKAHOMINY.
  
  
    
  IV. THE RETREAT.
  
  
    