num_pages: 215
description: This is the first book-length critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreets actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that Longstreets 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 Longstreets treatment by scholars this book presents an alternative view of Longstreet as an effective military leader and refutes over a century of negative evaluations of his performance.
language: None
title: Longstreet at Gettysburg: A Critical Reassessment
publisher: McFarland