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 ...

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 ...

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.

LONGSTREET: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, by Elizabeth R. Varon “Bad as was being shot,” the former Confederate general James Longstreet said years after he took a bullet in ...

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 ...

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is seeking to remove the 60-foot tall monument to Confederate General Robert E ... Born in 1821 in South Carolina, James Longstreet graduated from West Point ...

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 ...

Author Cory Pfarr gave a detailed reassessment of Confederate General James Longstreet’s oft-criticized performance during the 1863 Battle o… read more Author Cory Pfarr gave a detailed ...

Historian Chaplin (The First Scientific American) provides an enthralling exploration of Benjamin Franklin’s little-remembered but most commercially successful invention. The Continue reading ...