Lee's Lieutenants; A Study In Command by Freeman, Douglas Southall - 1946

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Arlington Edition. Light blue cloth over boards with gilt titling boxed in blue, gilt eagle with 13 stars on the cover and four bands blind stamped on the front and rear covers. Fine/not issued. 6.25" x 9", Vol. 1: Manassas to Malvern Hill, pp. lvi, 1 - 773. Vol. 2: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville, pp. xlv, 2 - 760. Vol. 3: Gettysburg to Appomattox, pp. xlvi, 1 - 409. Vol. 4: Part Two of Gettysburg to Appomattox, 411 - 862, followed by foldout map. All volumes have red top edge, uncut fore edge and supplement of photos and biographies following the index which were specially selected for this edition. All text blocks are clean and tight, likely unread as many pages still closed. A few spots on front of V. 4 and one on the rear of V. 1., insignificant bumpig at the head of two volumes, otherwise clean, bright and attractive. "On the basis of that established truth of command in one great American army, it perhaps is a mistake to assume that when a small nation wages a long war it trains in the exacting but instructive school of battle an inexhaustible supply of competent general officers." (p xxvii, V. 1).