Word: longstreet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running battle with the Army served little present purpose. The whole story of the Army on Saipan seemed destined to take its place with such other military causes célèbres as the conduct of the Dardanelles campaign in World War I and the reason Longstreet was late in attacking Little Round...
...stirred young Douglas; he decided: "If someone doesn't write the story of these men, it will be lost forever, and I'm go'n' to do it." Being Virginia born, Douglas Freeman had heard endless talk of the war; he had seen Generals Longstreet and Fitzhugh Lee in the flesh. The headmaster of McGuire's University School used to scold the boys for tardiness by reminding them that the battle of Gettysburg was lost because General Longstreet stopped to give his corps breakfast...
...Freeman the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1934. Lee's Lieutenants, which followed, was an even more impressive achievement, and a complex study of Lee's command problem highlighted by brief, brilliant biographies of his commanders-Jackson, Stuart, Early and Longstreet...
Your reviewer of Earl Schenck Miers' and Richard A. Brown's Gettysburg [TIME, May 31] does an injustice to the British observer with the Confederates, Colonel Arthur Fremantle, when applying the word "tactless" to Fremantle's remark to General Longstreet after the failure of Pickett's charge...
...remark, "I wouldn't have missed this for anything," while inappropriate, was not tactless; for the observer was in ignorance of the tactical situation at the time, and erroneously supposed that he had arrived just in time to witness an attack. He was unaware, when he spoke to Longstreet, that he was viewing Pickett's retreat. To quote Fremantle: "When I got close up to General Longstreet, I saw one of his regiments advancing through the woods in good order; so, thinking I was just in time to see the attack, I remarked to the general that...