LEE CAMP & THE FREEMANS - W. B. Freeman was a Commander of the R. E. Lee Camp, and Maj. General Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of Virginia. His involvement with project after project by the Lee Camp is enormous. However, his great reputation would be surpassed by his brilliant son - Douglas. DR. DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN - A Brilliant writer chronicling the history of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, R. E. Lee, and the Confederate Military. Few writers of Confederate history would ever match his volume of writing, his eloquence, or his inside knowledge and resources available to him - through the resources that Lee Camp had planted in Richmond. Available to Dr. Freeman the Library of the Soldiers Home, the Library of his father - influential in Confederate history in Richmond, the library of Virginia, the library of the Battle Abbey, and the library of the Confederate Museum (Museum of the Confederacy). At the Battle Abbey or the Confederate Memorial Institute - Lee Camp leaders would serve as Presidents, and in the 1930s Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman would influence Confederate history as few others would, and at the Battle Abbey - become the President of the historical organization. Of course, the topics at the Lee Camp for meetings were from awesome leaders of the times. I would have so loved to have been at the Lee Camp Assembly Hall for his presentation on Petersburg.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:02:10 +0000
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