James Longstreet

Name: James Longstreet
Author: H. J. Eckenrode
ISBN: 9780807866597

Lee's War Horse

Revised Edition

by H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad

Published by The University of North Carolina Press

Publication date: November 09, 2000

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ISBN 9780807866597 | 423 Pages, notes, index

423 Pages, notes, index

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A classic biography of a controversial commander

James Longstreet stood with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the great triumvirate of the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought from First Manassas through Appomattox and served as Lee’s senior subordinate for most of that time. In this classic work, first published by UNC Press in 1936, H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad follow Longstreet from his leading role in the military history of the Confederacy through his controversial postwar career and eventual status as an outcast in Southern society. Though they acknowledge his considerable gifts as a corps commander and absolve him of guilt for the Gettysburg debacle, the authors also call attention to the consequences of Longstreet’s unbridled ambition, extreme self-confidence, and stubbornness.

H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad, both Virginians, were historians of the Virginia Commission on Conservation and Development.

“This volume is something more than a biography of Longstreet. It will prove indispensable to students of the Civil War for the new points of view which it opens up and for the fresh light it throws upon many of the incidents.” — Times Literary Supplement

“This biography of Lee’s 'war horse' is . . . dispassionate and critical. It sets forth, in admirable detail and with scrupulous accuracy, the story of Longstreet’s military career.” — Henry Steele Commager, New York Herald Tribune

“Should appeal to all students of the Civil War — and even those of us who do not agree with the authors upon every point of their thesis owe them a vote of thanks for producing so conscientious, readable, and thorough a biography of a controversial and largely neglected figure.” — Stephen Vincent Benét, Saturday Review

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