THE OLD REBEL

THE OLD REBEL
Robert E. Lee As He Was Seen By His Contemporaries

Why in the 21st Century should we care about “the Old Rebel” Robert E. Lee, a Victorian who was old fashioned even during his own time, and who died nearly 150 years ago? Why a book about how his peers saw him, when the world he lived in disappeared long ago, making his life and death seemingly meaningless to those of us living in the modern era?

In The Old Rebel: Robert E. Lee As He Was Seen by His Contemporaries, award-winning author and Southern historian Lochlainn Seabrook, provides the answers: in our ever growing impersonal cyber age where we continue to distance ourselves not only from others, but from God and Nature as well, the Christ-like Southern gentleman Robert E. Lee is more relevant than ever before. In his hard-working, conservative, dutiful, and honest ways, in his deeply spiritual, modest, loyal, gentle, loving, and forgiving nature, Lee serves as an ideal moral compass for today’s depersonalized atheistic society, a true-life paragon that all of us—no matter what our age, occupation, race, religion, or political persuasion—can aspire to.

To aid us in better understanding the stunning power of Robert E. Lee’s life, Mr. Seabrook has gathered together nearly 400 footnoted quotes by the General’s 19th-Century contemporaries, including both his admirers and his former Northern enemies. The book, a companion to Seabrook’s equally absorbing work The Quotable Robert E. Lee, is divided into convenient chapters, covering everything from Lee’s birth, childhood, and family life, to his service in both the U.S. military and the C.S. military, as well as his time as president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University).

We also learn about the General’s earliest known French and English ancestors, his royal bloodline through William the Conqueror, Stratford Hall (Lee’s birthplace) and Arlington House (the Lee-Custis family estate), and the etymology of the Lee surname. Seabrook’s personal notes and the numerous Victorian illustrations lend historical context, helping make this Civil War Sesquicentennial Edition an indispensable work for all those interested in Lincoln's War, Confederate history, and Southern culture.

An attractive, unique, affordable, and popular tourist-friendly book that will appeal to both casual Civil War buffs and hardcore Civil War scholars alike, The Old Rebel is the perfect addition to any retail outlet, including not only bookstores, but Civil War sites, historic houses, museum gift stores, antique shops, B&Bs, tack shops, motorcycle shops, and gun stores. Tennessee author Lochlainn Seabrook, a close relation of the Lee and Custis families, is the winner of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal. Known as the “American Robert Graves” after his celebrated English cousin, Seabrook is the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford and the author of over thirty popular adult and children’s books, eleven of them on the War for Southern Independence.

BOOK DETAILS
Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
ISBN: 9780983818540
LCCN: 2011941057
Edition: 1st (Civil War Sesquicentennial Edition)
Copyright: 2012
Format: trade paperback
Type: nonfiction
Genre: biography, American Civil War, Confederate history, American history
Length: 260 pages
Illustrated: yes (b/w)
Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"
Cover: high gloss color
Paper: creme
Binding: softcover, perfect
Weight: 11.5 oz.
Price: $18.95

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