In her new biography Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, University of Virginia historian Elizabeth Varon recounts the story of one such leader: James Longstreet, a top brass ...

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.

For the rest of his long post-Gettysburg life—born during James Monroe’s presidency, he died under Theodore Roosevelt—Longstreet would fend off accusations that, frustrated by Lee overruling ...

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 ...

Lee in his city. (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) Born in 1821 in South Carolina, James Longstreet graduated from West Point in 1842 and served with distinction in the Mexican War. As the officer corps ...

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 ...

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 ...