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''Reflections on Lee: A Historian's Assessment'' is Roland's attempt to offer a balanced treatment of [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]], to show weaknesses beyond the strengths long attributed to the icon of what became known as "The Lost Cause."[7]

''Reflections on Lee: A Historian's Assessment'' is Roland's attempt to offer a balanced treatment of [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]], to show weaknesses beyond the strengths long attributed to the icon of what became known as "The Lost Cause."[7]

'''Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics'' examines the improbable career of the Kentucky-born Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) who was living in Texas at the outbreak of the Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the [[Battle of Shiloh]] in western Tennessee. Roland describes Johnston as "a leader of men ... He considered the welfare of the troops under him an inviolable trust. When hardship or hazard was their lot, he shared it without hesitation. Johnston's last words to his embattled troops were, 'I will lead you.' Small wonder that his associates looked upon him with deference. They 'not only respected him but loved him.'..."[8] Perhaps only the loss of General [[Stonewall Jackson]] in 1863 was greater to the Confederacy than the death of Johnston.  

''Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics'' examines the improbable career of the Kentucky-born Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) who was living in Texas at the outbreak of the Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the [[Battle of Shiloh]] in western Tennessee. Roland describes Johnston as "a leader of men ... He considered the welfare of the troops under him an inviolable trust. When hardship or hazard was their lot, he shared it without hesitation. Johnston's last words to his embattled troops were, 'I will lead you.' Small wonder that his associates looked upon him with deference. They 'not only respected him but loved him.'..."[8] Perhaps only the loss of General [[Stonewall Jackson]] in 1863 was greater to the Confederacy than the death of Johnston.  

Roland's ''The Confederacy'' was published in 1962 as part of the series, ''The Chicago History of American Civilization,'' edited by Daniel Joseph Boorstin (1914-2004), the twelfth person to have been the Librarian of Congress. ''The Confederacy'' was released by the University of Chicago Press. A publisher's promotion brochure maintains that Roland heeds "careful attention to President Davis' struggle against dividing forces within. ... [and that] he skillfully narrates the attempt of the Confederacy to wage total war against superior forces. All the poignant events and conditions are here: the formation of the government, the Upper South's final commitment to the cause, the doomed attempts to combat the Northern blockade at home and Northern diplomacy overseas, an agrarian economy's heroic defiance of an industrial enemy, the desperate measures by which the Davis government tried to sustain the Confederacy, and, at last, the dissolution and flight of the administration in 1865."[9]

Roland's ''The Confederacy'' was published in 1962 as part of the series, ''The Chicago History of American Civilization,'' edited by Daniel Joseph Boorstin (1914-2004), the twelfth person to have been the Librarian of Congress. ''The Confederacy'' was released by the University of Chicago Press. A publisher's promotion brochure maintains that Roland heeds "careful attention to President Davis' struggle against dividing forces within. ... [and that] he skillfully narrates the attempt of the Confederacy to wage total war against superior forces. All the poignant events and conditions are here: the formation of the government, the Upper South's final commitment to the cause, the doomed attempts to combat the Northern blockade at home and Northern diplomacy overseas, an agrarian economy's heroic defiance of an industrial enemy, the desperate measures by which the Davis government tried to sustain the Confederacy, and, at last, the dissolution and flight of the administration in 1865."[9]