James Longstreet: Lee's War Horse - Hardcover

Eckenrode, H. J.; Conrad, Bryan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807816906 ISBN 13: 9780807816905

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986

Synopsis

James Longstreet stood with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the great triumvirate of the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought from First Manassas through Appomattox and served as Lee's senior subordinate for most of that time. In this classic work, first published by UNC Press in 1936, H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad follow Longstreet from his leading role in the military history of the Confederacy through his controversial postwar career and eventual status as an outcast in Southern society. Though they acknowledge his considerable gifts as a corps commander and absolve him of guilt for the Gettysburg debacle, the authors also call attention to the consequences of Longstreet's unbridled ambition, extreme self-confidence, and stubbornness.

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Book Description:

"This volume is something more than a biography of Longstreet. It will prove indispensable to students of the Civil War for the new points of view which it opens up and for the fresh light it throws upon many of the incidents."-- Times Literary Supplement

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About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0807816906
• ISBN 13: 9780807816905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 423