A Fresh Look at Lee's "Old War Horse" In recent years the “Lost Cause" school of southern history, championed by William Pendleton, Jubal Early, and others, that worked diligently to blame James ...

Yet Longstreet remained a prominent national figure after the war. In 1880, the West Point graduate and prosperous businessman was named U.S. minister to Turkey.

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

He distinguished himself in battle during the Mexican-American War ... his men. After Gettysburg, newspaper accounts sensationalized his role in the offensive, despite the fact that Longstreet ...