James Longstreet's hesitancy and ... for allowing Pickett's Charge to occur. Yet Longstreet remained a prominent national figure after the war. In 1880, the West Point graduate and prosperous ...

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 ...

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

But his luck changed for the worse at Gettysburg, where Pickett lost a staggering number of his own men; nearly all the rest would be killed by the war's ... brigade under James Longstreet's ...