“Mr. Walsh writes clearly and has a way of isolating the critical elements in a battle. His emphasis on the officers’ backgrounds works very well. He treats them as people, not just uniforms with stars and gold braid. I’m learning a lot about Civil War commanders that I knew only as dry names.” —Larry Bond, The New York Times bestselling author of Day of Wrath

“A native New Yorker has written a moving and monumental history of the greatest army ever to fight on American soil, namely Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. This book belongs on the shelf with Catton and McPherson, Foote and Freeman, Wiley and Williams. It’s a superb piece of scholarship.” —Staige D. Blackford, The Virginia Quarterly Review

“This is an extraordinary book. The prose is alive with vivid descriptions and shrewd insights into the leaders of the Army of Northern Virginia. The battle narratives are superb. The end result is nothing less than an epic of American courage, told with unflinching detail and deeply moving pathos.” —Thomas Fleming, the New York Times bestselling author of When This Cruel War Is Over

“George Walsh’s probings into the characters and battles of Robert E. Lee and his officers of the Army of Northern Virginia are just brilliant. Who would have thought, with the enormity of books on the subject, that such new, incisive insights could be made on these men of the Confederacy. Damage Them All You Can is a magisterial work.” —Dale L. Walker, the Spur Award–Winning author of Pacific Destiny