James Longstreet's hesitancy and ... for allowing Pickett's Charge to occur. Yet Longstreet remained a prominent national figure after the war. In 1880, the West Point graduate and prosperous ...

But his luck changed for the worse at Gettysburg, where Pickett lost a staggering number of his own men; nearly all the rest would be killed by the war's ... brigade under James Longstreet's ...