The Complete “Prologue”

The following five images are scanned reproductions of the opening chapter, “Prologue,” from Steve Wilkins’ book Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee (Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, Inc., 1997). The highlighted words in yellow are the words that Wilkins plagiarized from other books — in this case Lee: The Last Years, by Charles Bracelen Flood (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981) and Personal Reminiscences of General Robert E. Lee by J. William Jones (New York: D. Appleton, 1875). However, Wilkins did not limit his theft to these two books; as you will see. He only limited his “Prologue” to them.

If you scroll down to the next post, you can see side-by-side comparisons of Wilkins’ words with the words that he lifted.