Lee's tarnished lieutenant : James Longstreet and his place in southern history /
Piston, William Garrett.
Lee's tarnished lieutenant : James Longstreet and his place in southern history / William Garrett Piston. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, (c)1987. - 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages) : maps, portrait
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: Longstreet antebellum -- part 1. Longstreet's military record : a reappraisal: From Manassas to Antietam. From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg. "The best fighter in the whole army". The bull of the woods at Chickamauga. From East Tennessee to Appomattox -- part 2. Longstreet's place in Southern history: Setting the stage. Scalawags, the Lost Cause, and the sunrise attack controversy. The anti-Longstreet faction emerges. A Georgia Republican courting Clio. A procrustean ending. Longstreet postmortem -- Epilogue.
N 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.
9780820346250
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904.
Confederate States of America. Army --Biography.
Confederate States of America. Army.
Generals--United States--Biography.
Electronic Books.
E467 / .L447 1987
Lee's tarnished lieutenant : James Longstreet and his place in southern history / William Garrett Piston. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, (c)1987. - 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages) : maps, portrait
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: Longstreet antebellum -- part 1. Longstreet's military record : a reappraisal: From Manassas to Antietam. From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg. "The best fighter in the whole army". The bull of the woods at Chickamauga. From East Tennessee to Appomattox -- part 2. Longstreet's place in Southern history: Setting the stage. Scalawags, the Lost Cause, and the sunrise attack controversy. The anti-Longstreet faction emerges. A Georgia Republican courting Clio. A procrustean ending. Longstreet postmortem -- Epilogue.
N 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.
9780820346250
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904.
Confederate States of America. Army --Biography.
Confederate States of America. Army.
Generals--United States--Biography.
Electronic Books.
E467 / .L447 1987