Douglas Southall Freeman

Douglas Southall Freeman was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, and author. He is best known for his multivolume biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington, for which he was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes.

Douglas Southall Freeman was born May 16, 1886 in Lynchburg, Virginia, to Bettie Allen Hamner and Walker Burford Freeman, an insurance agent who had served four years in Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia. From childhood, Freeman exhibited an interest in Southern history. In Lynchburg, his family lived at 416 Main Street, near the home of Confederate general Jubal Early. The family moved to the former Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia in 1892 at the height of the monument commemoration movement that memorialized Virginias Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, and Thomas Stonewall Jackson.

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