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Lee's tarnished lieutenant

Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant

James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History

By William Garrett Piston

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Publish Date

2013

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Language

eng

Pages

262

Description:

N 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.