Longstreet's reputation might have been higher but for some things that occurred after the war. With the erstwhile Confederacy prostrate, Longstreet supported Reconstruction, accepted government posts ...

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.

and Freedom at the End of the Civil War, which received the 2014 NYMAS “Eugene Feit Award.” Varon begins by reviewing Longstreet’s Civil War record, from Second Bull Run Manassas, through ...

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 ...