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What did Douglas Southall Freeman write?

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An authority on military strategy and on the military history of the Civil War, Freeman wrote R. E. Lee (4 vol., 1934-35), which won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for biography, and Lee's Lieutenants (3 vol., 1942-44). He edited A Calendar of Confederate Papers (1908) and also wrote Virginia, a Gentle Dominion (1924), The South to Posterity (1939), and John Stewart Bryan (1947). His biography of George Washington (7 vol., 1949-57), the last volume of which was written by his assistants John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958.

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