General Robert F. Hoke: Lee's Modest Warrior Legal Theory & Systems Christmas in Painted Pony Creek

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General Robert F. Hoke: Lee's Modest Warrior Legal Theory & Systems Christmas in Painted Pony CreekNeglected by modern historians, Robert F. Hoke was a towering figure in his time. Mustered into Confederate service as a second lieutenant in April 1861, he was a major within five months, a lieutenant colonel within nine months, a colonel within sixteen months, a brigadier general within two years, and a major general within three years becoming, at age twenty six, the youngest Southern officer of that rank in the Civil War. Of the 125,000 men his