Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series! Our next lecture will be: Recreating Gen. Lee's Civil War, One Day at a Time by Charles Knight. Cost is $5 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.

Talk Synopsis:

Douglas S. Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning three-volume biography of Robert E. Lee is a masterful reconstruction of the man's life. So exhaustive was Freeman's research that he often boasted he could account for every hour of Lee's life from West Point until his death. Freeman's Lee is thorough, but it isn't THAT thorough. Often neglected in Freeman's Lee and other studies of the general or of his various battles and campaigns, is what Lee was doing when he wasn't in the spotlight. Charles Knight's new From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lee's Civil War Day by Day, 1861-1865 recreates those four years of Lee's…