Describes the battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of Robert E. Lee, following that great general from his entry into Pennsylvania to the disastrous conclusion for the Confederate troops.
Paxton Davis lived in Lexington, Virginia, where he was Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington and Lee University - taught journalism for 23 years and headed the university's journalism and communications department from 1968 until his retirement in 1976. He worked as a reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal and the Roanoke Times & World News. He had been writing since he was a child and wrote and edited his own newspaper at the age of ten. He was a cadet at Virginia Military Institute.
He was also the author of twelve books.
He died in Fincastle, Va., on Saturday, May 28, 1994, of a heart ailment.