A key subordinate to Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. James Longstreet was instrumental in the Confederate victory at the Battle of Chickamauga and active after the war in advocating for racial reconciliation ...

THIS is the story of General James Longstreet at Petersburg, near Appomattox, when he rolled over in his bed and found a civilian in his room; an old man with a string tie and an oddshaped collar.

Elizabeth Varon considers how Robert E Lee’s lieutenant came to work for civil rights and fight white supremacist violence On 14 September 1874, less than a decade after the end of the US civil war, ...

LONGSTREET had half New Jersey blood and probably part Dutch. It shows in him. He is far more the modern, practical nineteenth-century American than most of his fellows. What Southern romance he has ...

If you stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Confederate Gen. James Longstreet's campaigns of eastern Tennessee will be the subject of this month's gathering of the Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table. Dr. Earl Hess, a ...

Elizabeth R. Varon, a professor of American history at the University of Virginia, has written a handful of groundbreaking and prize-winning books about the American Civil War. I had previously ...

Although the battle of Little Round Top is one of the most famous events at the battle of Gettysburg, it was in many ways an accident. The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. Robert E.

Within the military, far and away the greatest influence of the lost cause of the Confederacy is in the Army: 10 major Army posts were named for Confederates, two Navy ships, and essentially nothing ...