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Standard Robert E. Lee is well known as a significant figure in the Civil Battle. However, by removing Lee from the delimiting shape of the Civil Battle and placing him in the framework of the Republic's total background, Dowdey shows the "eternal relevance" of the tragic figure to the American history. With usage of a huge selection of personal words, Dowdey brings fresh insights into Lee's background and personal romantic relationships and examines the factors which made Lee that rare specimen, a "complete person." In tracing Lee's hesitant engagement in the sectional discord, Dowdey implies that he was essentially a peacemaker, very advanced in his disbelief in conflict as a resolution. Lee possessed never led troops in fight until suddenly given command of the demoralized, hodgepodge pressure under siege from McClellan in front of Richmond. In an in depth analysis of Lee's development in the mastery of the techniques of conflict, he shows his early on mistakes, the type of his seemingly intuitive capabilities, the limitations enforced by his personal personality and physical decrease, and the result of this personality on the men with whom he created a famous army. It had been after the fighting was over that Dowdey believes Lee made his most significant and neglected achievements. As a symbol of the defeated people, he increased most importantly hostilities and, in the wreckage of his own fortunes, advocated rebuilding a New South, for which he establish the example with his intensifying program in education. The essence of Lee's tragedy was the futility of his attempts toward the harmonious restoration of the Republic with the dissensions of days gone by forgotten.
