JAMES LONGSTREET - SOLDIER, POLITICIAN, OFFICERHOLDER

Description: JAMES LONGSTREET PART I: THE SOLDIER - BY D.B. SANGER PART II: THE POLITICIAN - BY T.R. HAY FIRST EDITION FINE CONDITION BOOK FINE – CONDITION DUST JACKET IS PROTECTED IN A CLEAR, BRODART COVER Sharp, Bright, Clean, Solidly Bound, Antique Book Loaded with Maps and Photographs Contains a Critical Essay of Biographical Sources Fully Referenced, with Bibliography, and Indexed PRINTED BY THE LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, IN 1952 No other Southern Corps Commander had so wide an experience as James Longstreet, and probably no other former Confederate officer aroused so much controversy in the postwar period as he. Longstreet served in the Confederate army in all ranks form Brigadier to Lieutenant General. He participated in almost every campaign against the Army of the Potomac as well as in the Battle of Chickamauga and in East Tennessee. The late Colonel Sanger in his critical account of Longstreet’s service career considers Longstreet superior to both Lee and Jackson in battle leadership and in an appreciation of tactical values, though he did not possess the strategic brilliance of either. Longstreet knew instinctively the exact moment for the counterstroke, and even Grant thought him Lee’s best general. Colonel Sanger’s judgment is that Longstreet was the best fighting general in the armies of the Confederacy and the best Corps Commander North or South. Nevertheless, Longstreet’s reputation as a solider has been clouded because of alleged slowness and failure to obey orders at crucial times; the most serious charge was that he lost the victory for Lee at Gettysburg, a charge he later denied by shifting the blame to Lee. The harshest censure of Longstreet, however, was directed not at his military record, but at his political conduct following the war, about which Mr. Hay writes in Part II of this book. Longstreet was among the first and the most prominent ex-Confederates to accept office from the Republicans. He had the misfortune to be identified with the unsavory phases of Reconstruction as an officeholder of the part and factions which were lining their own pockets at the expense of the disfranchised citizens of the community and state, and he often found himself caught in factional disputes. Furthermore, Longstreet’s intemperate and bitter rebuttal of his own critics and his severe criticism of Lee only brought more unfavorable comment; his epithets ranged from scalawag to traitor. Despite his stormy civilian life, however, the brilliance of Longstreet’s military career and the sincerity of his peacetime efforts became more apparent in his later years. At the end, according to Mr. Hay, “it was Longstreet the dogged fighter and brilliant tactician who was remembered and honored rather than Longstreet the politician, battling forces and men he could neither understand nor control.” THIS BOOK IS IN FINE CONDITION This original, first edition book is in excellent condition. The book comes in the original dust jacket that is protected in a clear, Brodart cover. The book is clean, bright and sharp. The interior is clean and the pages are in excellent condition. The book has solid binding throughout. The book has no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. The book contains battle maps and illustrations. 460 page. Fully indexed. An excellent condition, First Edition of this hard-to-find, antique book. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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