General James Longstreet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General James Longstreet write by Jeffry D. Wert. This book was released on 2015-05-26. General James Longstreet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. General James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War, from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. Yet, he was largely held to blame for the Confederacy's defeat at Gettysburg. General James Longstreet sheds new light on the controversial commander and the man Robert E. Lee called “my old war horse.”
General James Longstreet
General James Longstreet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General James Longstreet write by Jeffry D. Wert. This book was released on 1994-12. General James Longstreet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that Longstreet was unfairly blamed for the defeat at Gettysburg.
Confederate Struggle for Command
Confederate Struggle for Command - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confederate Struggle for Command write by Alexander Mendoza. This book was released on 2008. Confederate Struggle for Command available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Though he has traditionally been saddled with much of the blame for the Confederate loss at Gettysburg, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet was a capable, resourceful, and brave commander. Lee referred to Longstreet as his "Old Warhorse," and Longstreet's men gave him the sobriquet "Bull of the Woods" for his aggressive tactics at Chickamauga." "Now, historian Alexander Mendoza offers a comprehensive analysis of Longstreet's leadership during his seven-month assignment in the Tennessee theater of operations. He concludes that the obstacles to effective command faced by Longstreet during his sojourn in the west had at least as much to do with longstanding grievances and politically motivated prejudices as they did with any personal or military shortcomings of Longstreet himself."--BOOK JACKET.
From Manassas to Appomattox
From Manassas to Appomattox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Manassas to Appomattox write by James Longstreet. This book was released on 1895. From Manassas to Appomattox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Donated by Lloyd Miller.
Longstreet
Longstreet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Longstreet write by Elizabeth Varon. This book was released on 2023-11-21. Longstreet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there). He won a major Confederate victory at Chickamauga and was seriously wounded during a later battle. After the war, Longstreet moved to New Orleans, where he dramatically changed course. He supported Black voting and joined the newly elected, integrated postwar government in Louisiana. When white supremacists took up arms to oust that government, Longstreet, leading the interracial state militia, did battle against former Confederates. His defiance ignited a firestorm of controversy, as white Southerners branded him a race traitor and blamed him retroactively for the South’s defeat in the Civil War. Although he was one of the highest-ranking Confederate generals, Longstreet has never been commemorated with statues or other memorials in the South because of his postwar actions in rejecting the Lost Cause mythology and urging racial reconciliation. He is being discovered in the new age of racial reckoning as “one of the most enduringly relevant voices in American history” (The Wall Street Journal). This is the first authoritative biography in decades and the first that “brilliantly creates the wider context for Longstreet’s career” (The New York Times).
