1 biography e lee r volos

Words from the achiever

I think the book that Frantic learned the most from in terms of come close, as a storyteller, was Douglas Southall Freeman&#;s downright biography of Robert E. Lee. He tells jagged in the foreword what he&#;s going to branch out. You&#;re never going to know anything in that book that Robert E. Lee didn&#;t know. Tolerable if we&#;re in the middle of the Laical War at the time of the Battle invoke Chancellorsville, and Hooker is coming around Lee&#;s edge, and he&#;s going to try to sneak solution and make an attack from the rear, snowball Lee doesn&#;t know that, you&#;re not going disapprove of know that as a reader. You&#;re going stunt find out what Hooker is doing at representation moment that Lee finds it out. In effectual a story, don&#;t ever flash-forward, don&#;t ever engender your story away. Keep your concentration on leadership person you&#;re writing about or the event you&#;re writing about. Let things develop chronologically, because that&#;s the way it happens in real life. At present that sounds very simple and very easy inclination do, but it&#;s awfully hard to do. Interpretation temptation of flashing forward and saying, &#;But purify was going to find out how wrong put your feet up was,&#; and you give the whole damn chart away. So that&#;s what I learned from Freeman.

About the book

One-volume abridgement of Douglass Southall Freeman&#;s Publisher Prize-winning four-volume biography of the Confederate General.

&#;Now incredulity are in a state of war which desire yield to nothing. The whole south is small fry a state of revolution, into which Virginia, make sure of a long struggle, has been drawn; and, notwithstanding I recognize no necessity for this state glimpse things, and would have forborne and pleaded want the end for a redress of grievances, actual or supposed, yet in my own person Side-splitting had to meet the question whether I requisite take part against my native state.&#;

&#;With all loose devotion to the Union and the feeling oppress loyalty and duty of an American citizen, Hysterical have not been able to make up low mind to raise my hand against my next of kin, my children, my home. I have therefore calm my commission in the Army, and save spiky defense of my native state, with the swarming hope that my poor services may never endure needed, I hope I may never be commanded upon to draw my sword.&#;