With Lee in Virginia
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G. A. Henty
(4,368 Sterne; 68 Bewertungen)
Vincent Wingfield is the son of a wealthy Virginian planter. When the country goes to war, he enlists in the cavalry, and sees action under the various generals commanding the army in and near Virginia. He has several private adventures as well, including a personal enemy, prison escape, rescue of a young lady, spying expedition, and recovery of a stolen slave. He rises in rank in the Confederate army, and after the war is over, he marries and returns home to manage his mother's plantation.
Henty in this book gives an overview of the causes of the Civil War, and follows the battles and movements of the army in Virginia and the surrounding area. The issue of slavery is discussed several times from the viewpoint of an Englishman who detested the institution, but saw that most slaves on large plantations were well treated. While not an an exhaustive work, With Lee In Virginia covers the main generals (Lee, Jackson, Stuart, Grant, McClellan, Sherman, Pope, etc.) and the most important battles of the war in an interesting and instructive format. (Summary by Alayna May) (10 hr 30 min)
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Avid Listener
(3,5 Sterne)
A rather simplistic overview of the terrible War Between the States. Happily, he does note the true reason for the struggle--STATES RIGHTS. He also rightfully counters the patently untrue book by the muckraking Harriet Beecher Stowe. (Before you note that Henty was English and thus could know nothing about lifie in the Old South, please remember that Stowe had never seen a southern plantation and was equaiily unfamuliar with the true state of affairs.) The reading was good throughout.
Love it
jdawg1276
(5 Sterne)
the reader does a great job and the book is wonderful.
(5 Sterne)
The bravery and suffering of the South during their ill-conceived attempt at secession is a poignant background to this tale. A different and romanticized view of their form of slavery is woven throughout the plot.
john doe
(5 Sterne)
You would never know from the modern inundated propaganda, how the south won many battles, outnumbered, out-equiped and cut off from all aid. They weren't defeated on the battlefield so much as by starvation and lack of equippement.
Deo Vindice
(5 Sterne)
Revisionist beware. Great fictional account of a Virginia planter educated in England returns home to fight for his families way of life. Along the way displaying the moral conduct of a Southern Gentleman.
(5 Sterne)
My family fought and bled for the Confederacy in the 1860's, and for the USA in most of our wars since. God Bless America.
sweettea
(5 Sterne)
Tolerably read, though both readers mispronounced a few rare words the reading was quite servicable.
maybe Henry's best!
Anewelding
(5 Sterne)
great story and readers