Rebels in Repose

The postwar life of surviving Rebel generals—the triumph and heartbreak, success and failure of Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and others. The South’s high command traveled dramatically divergent paths after the dissolution of the Confederacy. Their professional reputations were often rewritten accordingly, as the rise of the Lost Cause ideology codified the deification of Lee and the vilification of James Longstreet. The irascible Jubal A. Early, Robert E. Lee’s “bad old man,” went to C