Boy of old Virginia : Robert E. Lee

Date:

©1937.

Author:

Monsell, Helen Albee, 1895-

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH M754 B69 1937 LOCAL

Publisher:

Bobbs-Merrill

Abstract:

A biography focusing on the childhood of the man who turned down the field command of the United States Army and became the leader of the Confererate Army during the Civil War.

Physical Description:

165 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series:

Childhood of famous Americans series and Childhood of famous Americans series.

Notes:

Special Collections' copy 2 has dust jacket. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

[Aikey collection]; Bobbs-Merrill, c 1937; [this work would later become the 2d volume in the 'orange biographies', The Childhood of Famous Americans series; Stevenson's Abe Lincoln was the first in 1932]; 2 copies: 1) with spine and cover titles printed in black on red cloth, 2) identical, but with dust jacket and special 'Virginia Edition' leaf tipped in and autographed

Subjects:

Generals United States Biography Juvenile fiction, African Americans Juvenile fiction, African Americans, and Generals

Genres/Forms:

Fiction and Juvenile works

Names:

Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 Juvenile fiction and Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870

Corporate Names:

Confederate States of America. Army Biography Juvenile fiction and Confederate States of America. Army

Geographic Terms:

United States