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Nov 22, 2023 · In retrospect, this was the beginning of what Varon calls a “struggle over Civil War memory,” in which Longstreet became an easy scapegoat. By the end of the 1860s, he was endorsing Black ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Longstreet stood in stark contrast. Varon shows that “It was not the battle at Gettysburg that defined Longstreet’s Civil War but rather the surrender at Appomattox.” He accepted, as no other leading Confederate did, that the honorable thing to do was enact the political and economic agenda imposed by the north.
Nov 21, 2023 · Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Finalist A “compelling portrait” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) of the controversial Confederate general who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South. It was the most remarkable political about-face in American history. During the Civil War, General ...
The evening of August 30, 1862. Longstreet’s charge on August 30 th was, with 28,000 men, was one of the largest simultaneous attacks of the war.. 1.“There was a moment’s stillness and then – bang! bang, bang, bang!....not only were men wounded and killed, but they were riddled.”
At the beginning of the war a cavalry officer, Moxley Sorrel, joined the staff of Brigadier General James Longstreet. Sorrel described Longstreet as “a most striking figure, about forty years of age, as oldier every inch, and very handsome, tall and well proportioned, strong and active, a superb horseman and with an unsurpassed soldierly bearing, his features and expression fairly matched; a ...
He is being rediscovered in the new age of racial reckoning. This is the first biography in decades and the first to give proper attention to Longstreet’s long post-Civil War career. Publisher: Simon & Schuster (November 21, 2023) Length: 480 pages ISBN13: 9781982148270
Jan 5, 2024 · Longstreet returned to north Georgia in 1876, swapped his sword for a pen, and dedicated much of the remainder of his long life to battle on the field of Civil War memory. Fully ostracized from Confederate memorial culture, Longstreet’s Republicanism made him the favored target of the Southern Historical Society Papers and the cult of Robert ...
