For example, a memorial honoring Robert Smalls, the enslaved Civil War hero who famously sailed a Confederate vessel out of Charleston Harbor and turned it over to the Union navy, and later served ...

Despite his distinguished war record, Longstreet’s absence from the pantheon of Confederate heroes was no accident. It was the result of a deliberate campaign by Southerners to punish him for ...

In “Longstreet,” Elizabeth R. Varon dissects the life and legacy of a Confederate general who became a devoted supporter of Reconstruction. By Brenda Wineapple Brenda Wineapple is currently a ...

Longstreet feared waves of attacks risked too many lives. In July, 1863, Longstreet also urged Lee to dispatch at least two divisions to repel his old friend U.S. Grant in Tennessee.

Ousted from office, Longstreet took refuge in relitigating his Civil War record, contending in interviews, essays, and eventually a mammoth-sized memoir, against uncontrite ex-rebels who wanted to ...

Longstreet commanded troops from brigade to corps level in the major battles of the war’s eastern theater and in 1863 scored a decisive victory at Chickamauga, the largest and bloodiest battle ...

The American Civil War, a conflict that raged from 1861 to 1865, was a defining period in U.S. history, shaping. Nerdable. ... General James Longstreet – Civil War Generals.

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

Longstreet's postwar life began in New Orleans. As a federal official, he worked with the Republican-controlled government and supported equal political rights for Black people, newly guaranteed ...

The Confederacy’s Most Controversial General. Prof. Varon (UVa) has an impressive body of work on the Civil War, including Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War, which ...

Longstreet could potentially do more good or more harm than any other applicant for Congress’s mercy. Longstreet, Confederate general during the American Civil War. Artist Unknown.