Longstreet at Gettysburg : A critical Reassessment ( Cory M. Pfarr-GC)} medal by Linda Clark

by Linda Clark

In So You Think You Know Gettysburg

Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war

but during the Civil War

Longstreet at Gettysburg : A critical Reassessment ( Cory M. Pfarr-GC)} medal by Linda Clarkby Cory Pfarr This is the first book length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that Longstreet's record has been discredited unfairly, beginning with character assassination by his contemporaries after the war and, persistently, by historians in the decades since. By closely studying the three day battle, and conducting an incisive historiographical inquiry into