Author: Wilbur D. Thomas
Publisher: McClain Printing Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: H. J. Eckenrode
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807847992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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James Longstreet stood with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the great triumvirate of the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought from First Manassas through Appomattox and served as Lee's senior subordinate for most of that time. In this classic work,

Author: Jim Corrigan
Publisher: Ottn Publishing
ISBN: 9781595560438
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages :

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"A biography of the Confederate general James Longstreet, who was regarded as one of the most talented commanders on either side of the Civil War and served with distinction at Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, and other major battles"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Hamilton James ECKENRODE (and CONRAD (Bryan))
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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Author: Helen Dortch Longstreet
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Lee and Longstreet at High Tide is a biography written by Helen D. Longstreet. It depicts the life and military service of Civil War confederate general James Longstreet, who led numerous battles, including Gettysburg.

Author: Herman M. Leonard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Helen Dortch Longstreet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Mrs Helen Dortch Longstreet
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781448660629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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This series of short essays by Helen D. Longstreet, second wife of Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, was first compiled and published in 1917 by A. B. Caldwell Publishing Co. in Atlanta, Ga. For the most part they are interesting stories about events which occurred during and after the Civil War. Helen talks about her family and how she met and fell in love with the old soldier, a man 40 years her senior. She vehemently defends her husband against scurrilous accusations spewed forth by the Lee cult, a group of ex-Confederates, who sabotaged the reputation of anyone who was bold enough to criticize any aspect of General Robert E. Lee's conduct during the war.

Author: William Garrett Piston
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034625X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic images of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart, and many lesser commanders. But while the tarnish on such statues has done nothing to color the reputation of those great leaders, there remains one Confederate commander whose tarnished image has nothing to do with bronze monuments. Nowhere in the South does a memorial stand to Lee's intimate friend and second-in-command James Longstreet. In Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant, William Garrett Piston examines the life of James Longstreet and explains how a man so revered during the course of the war could fall from grace so swiftly and completely. Unlike other generals in gray whose deeds are familiar to southerners and northerners alike, Longstreet has the image not of a hero but of an incompetent who lost the Battle of Gettysburg and, by extension, the war itself. Piston's reappraisal of the general's military record establishes Longstreet as an energetic corps commander with an unsurpassed ability to direct troops in combat, as a trustworthy subordinate willing to place the war effort above personal ambition. He made mistakes, but Piston shows that he did not commit the grave errors at Gettysburg and elsewhere of which he was so often accused after the war. In discussing Longstreet's postwar fate, Piston analyzes the literature and public events of the time to show how the southern people, in reaction to defeat, evolved an image of themselves which bore little resemblance to reality. As a product of the Georgia backwoods, Longstreet failed to meet the popular cavalier image embodied by Lee, Stuart, and other Confederate heroes. When he joined the Republican party during Reconstruction, Longstreet forfeited his wartime reputation and quickly became a convenient target for those anxious to explain how a "superior people" could have lost the war. His new role as the villain of the Lost Cause was solidified by his own postwar writings. Embittered by years of social ostracism resulting from his Republican affiliation, resentful of the orchestrated deification of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet exaggerated his own accomplishments and displayed a vanity that further alienated an already offended southern populace. Beneath the layers of invective and vilification remains a general whose military record has been badly maligned. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant explains how this reputation developed—how James Longstreet became, in the years after Appomattox, the scapegoat for the South's defeat, a Judas for the new religion of the Lost Cause.

Author: James Longstreet
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Donated by Lloyd Miller.