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...Jeffry Wert Simon and Schuster...
...General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier, author Jeffry Wert attempts to resolve the dispute which surrounds Longstreet and to reveal why such an important figure in one of the most studied periods of American history receives so little recognition today. Drawing on both Longstreet's supporters and critics, Wert creates a fair and insightful narrative of Longstreet's Civil War experience. In the process, Wert establishes an image of Longstreet as a complex man whose intricacies have often been lost in the rush to historical judgment...
...Wert present Longstreet as an extremely skillful military leader. He describes Longstreet as a general who sought to win through superior organization and the conservation of his own troops. In contrast to stonewall Jackson, Longstreet did not usually attempt bold and daring attacks. While not achieving stunning victories like Jackson, he did not put his army in as much danger and still was extremely successful in battle...
...Wert explains that it is this unresolved controversy that has led to Longstreet's relative obscurity as a Civil War leader. His quite, but impressive service to the Confederacy became the basis for his failure to become a great Civil War legend. Stonewall Jackson's bold successes obscured his failures and his death shortly before Gettysburg left him an unblemished hero and martyr for the Confederacy. Robert E. Lee, the commander and gentleman who is generally considered one of history's greatest generals, gradually surpassed Jackson as the premier hero of the Old South. "The singular figure in the army...
...Wert concludes that Longstreet was a superb though humanly flawed general. He was certainly the best subordinate commander in Lee's army and perhaps the best in any army on either side during the Civil War. By looking fairly at the records of the other generals, like Lee, and dealing seriously with the battlefield conditions of the Civil War, Wert provides a credible basis from which to evaluate Longstreet's performance...