Books: American Heroes

LEE'S LIEUTENANTS. VOLUME III. GETTYSBURG TO APPOMATTOX—Douglas Southall Freeman—Scribner ($5).

Under the warm June sunlight the rich Pennsylvania farmlands unrolled in a vision of wealth that staggered the triumphant, barefoot Army of Northern Virginia. The invasion was a picnic. It was a combination of all the entertainments of rustic America—a horse race, a chicken fry (with requisitioned chickens), a parade—and the prizes were everything that the nation could offer.

The hungry soldiers enjoyed the 25 barrels of sauerkraut they requisitioned at Chambersburg and the cherries that were ripening everywhere. They marched 15 to...