Lee's tarnished lieutenant : James Longstreet and his place in southern history / William Garrett Piston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piston, William Garrett.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generals--United States--Biography.

Generals.

Confederate States of America. Army--Biography.

Confederate States of America.

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904.

Longstreet, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beneath the layers of invective and vilification remains a general whose military record has been badly maligned. Piston explains how how James Longstreet became, in the years after Appomattox, the scapegoat for the South's defeat, a Judas for the new religion of the Lost Cause.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue: Longstreet Antebellum""; ""PART I: Longstreet's Military Record: A Reappraisal""; ""1 From Manassas to Antietam""; ""2 From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg""; ""3 ""The Best Fighter in the Whole Army""""; ""4 The Bull of the Woods at Chickamauga""; ""5 From East Tennessee to Appomattox""; ""PART II: Longstreet's Place in Southern History""; ""6 Setting the Stage""; ""7 Scalawags, the Lost Cause, and the Sunrise Attack Controversy""; ""8 The Anti-Longstreet Faction Emerges""; ""9 A Georgia Republican Courting Clio""

""10 A Procrustean Ending""""11 Longstreet Postmortem""; ""Epilogue""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820346250

082034625X

OCLC:

842932810