Holmes writes General James Longstreet was an important figure in the Confederate Army; as important as Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart or A.P. Hill; nearly as critical to the ...

General James Longstreet, was one of the “three persons of the South” whom President Andrew Johnson believed should “never receive amnesty.” President Johnson was half-right. Longstreet ...

On this day in 1864, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet became caught in the fire of his own troops during the Battle of the Wilderness, near Fredericksburg, Va., leaving his right arm paralyzed.

For the rest of his long post-Gettysburg life—born during James Monroe ... have been better for the general had he died of his wartime wounds. “Demonizing Longstreet,” Varon notes, became ...

As Elizabeth R. Varon observes in Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, her compelling new biography of James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee’s second in command, the Lost Cause ...

None of those bases — or anything else — were named for Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, although he was Lee’s most trusted lieutenant. But Longstreet was also the only major Confederate figure who ...

We can gain valuable insights into Congress’s intentions by looking at the case of Confederate General James Longstreet, whose fate hung in the balance in the spring of 1868, as lawmakers staged ...