Longstreet the Confederate general who defied the South

"An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white s...

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Main Author: Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Summary:"An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and attacked by other Southerners, and blamed for the South's defeat in the Civil War"--
Physical Description:xx, 469 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : ill ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781982148270
1982148276
9781982148287
1982148284
Author Notes:Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history at the University of Virginia. Her books include Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South ; Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy ; and Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War . Her book, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War , won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and was named one of The Wall Street Journal 's best books of the year.