General Stephen D. Lee

This biographical portrait by a well known Civil War historian brings much deserved attention to an exceptional Confederate military figure who became one of the New South's most progressive leaders.<p>Herman Hattaway's clear swift narrative depicts Lee in brilliant performance at Second Manassas Chickasaw Bayou Nashville and after the war as a leader who used his military skills and discipline to work in bringing prosperity and education into the defeated South.<p>After the war Lee established a home in Mississippi and found fulfillment in his calling to be the first president of Mississippi A & M College (today Mississippi State University) where he preached the message of applying brain power to farming. His admirers bestowed upon him the title Father of Industrial Education in the South.<p>Though the significance of Stephen D. Lee was long overlooked in historical perspectives of the Civil War and the development of the New South Hattaway's appreciative study has remedied a