Word: longstreet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish that Jackson had been here," he said quietly as he listened to Historian Shelby Foote talk of "that terrible, terrible day" at Gettysburg. "Ewell would have done better if Jackson had been here. Lee should have listened to the Georgians that day." The Georgian Longstreet had strongly urged Lee not to fight the Battle of Gettysburg...
When former Representative Charles Longstreet Weltner of Atlanta, the 39-year-old great grandson of the author of the Confederate Constitution, gave up his Democratic nomination for a third term in Congress rather than abide by a party loyalty oath that would have required him to support Lester Maddox, a colleague in the House commented, "We may have to wait another 50 years before we get another Charlie Weltner...
...Charles Longstreet Weltner is no more at home in the South today than he was five years ago. The optimism with which he might once have looked on last November's gains is not there, nor is his faith in liberalism or the Democratic Party. He has come to Cambridge, he says, to try to find some answers about what to do next...