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...JAMES LONGSTREET: LEE'S WAR HORSE-H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad-University of North Carolina Press...
...Pickett and some 7,000 men across the open fields to their hopeless assault. That charge, whose last thin waves lapped up through the Union centre, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The officer whose nod sent Pickett's column to its doom was General James Longstreet. Around his burly figure the battle-smoke of partisan controversy has hung thick ever since. Did Longstreet lose the battle that lost the South the Civil War? Many a Southerner, many a Northerner, has answered yes. Biographers Eckenrode and Conrad, in what is the first life of Longstreet ever written...
...South Carolinian of Dutch ancestry, James Longstreet went through most of the paces of a good professional soldier. At West Point he was always near the bottom of his class, graduated not much higher than his friend Ulysses S. Grant. Like his contemporaries in the service, Longstreet served in the Mexican War. By the time the Civil War started he had settled down in the paymaster department. His experience and his massive self-confidence started him off in the Confederate Army as a brigadier-general. "Six feet tall, broad as a door, hairy as a goat," Longstreet was compact...
...understood Longstreet, and once called him affectionately "my old war horse." Longstreet did not understand Lee, and never considered him a first-rate soldier. After the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), where he disagreed with Lee's generalship, he became outspokenly critical of his commander. He also thought little of Stonewall Jackson. Itching for an independent command, Longstreet seized the opportunity, when he was given the Department of Southern Virginia and North Carolina, to augment his army at the expense of Lee's. Ordered to rejoin Lee before the Battle of Chancellorsville, he moved so slowly that he missed...
...face of bitter opposition to prosecute a quadroon PWA clerk named Mclntosh for pilfering $38.40 worth of Government cement and lumber. Last week it developed that fierce discord had also arisen between Judge Wilson and the Pearson Administration over disposition of the case of Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet. relict of famed Confederate General James Longstreet.* Widow Longstreet had had her driver's license revoked for parking her automobile on the wrong side of a street...