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<p>In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic images of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart, and many lesser commanders. But while the tarnish on such statues has done nothing to color the reputation of those great leaders, there remains one Confederate commander whose tarnished image has nothing to do with bronze monuments. Nowhere in the South does a memorial stand to Lee's intimate friend and second-in-command James Longstreet.</p> <p>In <i>Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant</i>, William Garrett Piston examines the life of James Longstreet and explains how a man so revered during the course of the war could fall from grace so swiftly and completely. Unlike other generals in gray whose deeds are familiar to southerners and northerners alike, Longstreet has the image not of a hero but of an incompetent who lost the Battle of Gettysburg and, by extension, the war itself. Piston's reappraisal of the general's military record establishes Longstreet as an energetic corps commander with an unsurpassed ability to direct troops in combat, as a trustworthy subordinate willing to place the war effort above personal ambition. He made
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- Author
- Confederate States of America. Army.;Longstreet, James;Confederate States of America. Army;Piston, William Garrett
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780820312293
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, War & Espionage
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (87 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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