Author: Wert, Jeffry D.,
Title: General James Longstreet: the confederacy's most controversial soldier.
Description: NY, Simon & Schuster, (1993). VG lg sz PB. Gen. Longstreet fought in nearly everycampaign of the Civil War from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam,. Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. Yet he was largely held to blame for the Confederacy's defeat at Gettysburg. LOngstreet sheds new light on his controversial commander and the man Lee called "my old war horse." The author of Abraham Lincoln: the Man Behind the Myths, Stephen B. Oates, said this book was "a brilliant, provocative, riveting life, so much so that I found it impossible to put down. If I had to recommend just one biography of a Confederate military figure, this would be it.".

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