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Douglas Southall Freeman
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Douglas Southall Freeman
American historian and journalist
Douglas Southall Freeman (May 16, – June 13, ) was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, radio commentator, and author. He is best known for his multi-volume biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington, for both of which he was awarded Pulitzer Prizes.[1]
Early life
[edit]Douglas Southall Freeman was born May 16, , in Lynchburg, Virginia, to Bettie Allen Hamner and Walker Burford Freeman, an insurance agent who had served four years in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. From childhood, Freeman exhibited an interest in Southern history. In Lynchburg, his family lived at Main Street,[2] near the home of Confederate general Jubal Early. The family moved to the former Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, in at the height of the monument commemoration movement that memorialized Virginia's Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.[1]
In , Freeman was awarded an A.B. from Richmond College, where he had been a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. In , at the age of 22, he earned a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Unable to secure a position in academia, Freeman joined the staff of the Richmond Time
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