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NINE LIVES WITH GRANDFATHER-Stephen Longstreet-Julian Messner...
...this might well have made Grandpa Longstreet a character to end all recollections of the Diamond Jim Brady-Stanford White-Harry K. Thaw-Anna Held era. But Nine Lives with Grandfather is not that good a book. At best, it is readable, escapist nonfiction, often amusing but seldom really funny. At worst, it is merely the sixth book in two years by 33-year-old Stephen Longstreet, a prolific writer who also operates under at least four pseudonyms and who draws almost as facilely as he writes...
...Helen Dortch Longstreet, 85-year-old widow of Lieut. General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee's right-hand man at Gettysburg, turned up as a student in "assembly, fabrication and riveting" at a training school in Marietta, Ga. A tireless individualist* Mrs. Longstreet lives alone at a trailer camp, goes to classes every day from 2 to 11 p.m., hopes to be in an assembly line job by next week. She explained simply: "I couldn't stay out of this...
...Author Freeman's massive work of the Confederate warriors (Lee's Lieutenants, TIME, Oct. 26), closed with the aftermath of the Seven Days' battles. Volume II takes the reader from Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville and the death of Stonewall Jackson. Other famous "lieutenants" included are James Longstreet, Jeb Stuart, Jubal Early, A. P. Hill R. S. Ewell, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, R. H. Anderson, W. N. Pendleton. Detailed, scholarly examination of every inch of the battlefields is coupled with dramatic descriptions of men in action, adding up to an invaluable period piece. A fine successor...
...standing in the community, he knows more about the Army of Northern Virginia than any man alive and has for years lectured on his subject at the Army War College in Washington. Now 56, Freeman adheres to a famous daily schedule that would tax the nerves of "Old Pete" Longstreet...