Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth

Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953), an American historian and biographer, is renowned for his Pulitzer Prize-winning multi-volume works R. E. Lee: A Biography (1935) and George Washington: A Biography (1948-1957, with the final volume completed by collaborators John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth). His exhaustive research and narrative style established the Virginia School of Civil War scholarship and influenced military leaders.