Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Born in 1821 in South Carolina, James Longstreet graduated from West Point in 1842 and served with distinction in the Mexican War. As the officer corps split ...
Longstreet was a key figure in the rebel army's victory at Chickamauga in September 1863 and Robert E. Lee's chief subordinate during the Gettysburg campaign, but the Georgian known as "Old Pete" and ...
James Longstreet was the most loyal of Confederates. A Southerner, slave owner and second in command to Robert E. Lee, Longstreet, despite grave misgivings about Lee's strategy for the battle of ...
The Center for the Study of the Civil War Era at Kennesaw State University will hold its 14th Annual Civil War Symposium on March 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the KSU Continuing Education Center ...
A Fresh Look at Lee's "Old War Horse" In recent years the “Lost Cause" school of southern history, championed by William Pendleton, Jubal Early, and others, that worked diligently to blame James ...
The South’s most astute commander, he was an ardent defender of slavery, but his sudden Reconstruction conversion brought down fires of vengeance that burned James Longstreet’s reputation for a ...
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Lt. Gen. James Longstreet remains the Confederacy’s most controversial senior military leader. Born in 1821, the West Point graduate, like many of his future comrades in arms, served ably during the ...
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Confederate Gen. James Longstreet's campaigns of eastern Tennessee will be the subject of this month's gathering of the Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table. Dr. Earl Hess, a ...