Suggested Reading

Biographies of Longstreet

Bedwell, Randall, ed. May I Quote You General Longstreet? Nashville, TN:

     Cumberland House, 1999.

DiNardo, R. L. and Albert A. Nofi, eds. James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier, the

     Controversy. Conshohocken, PA: Combined Publishing, 1998.

Martin, David G. General Longstreet and his New Jersey Relations. Dayton, OH:

     Morningside Press, nd.

Piston, William Garrett.  Lee’s Tarnished Lieutenant. Athens, GA: University of

     Georgia Press, 1987.

Reardon, Carol. I Have Been a Soldier All My Life. Gettysburg, PA: Farnsworth

     Military Impressions, 1997.

Sanger, Donald Bridgman and Thomas Robson Hay.  James Longstreet: I. Soldier,

     II. Politician, Officeholder, and Writer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University

     Press, 1952. Reprint, Peter Smith, 1968.

Sawyer, Gordon. James Longstreet: Before Manassas and After Appomattox. 

     Gainesville, GA: Sawyer House Publishing, 2005.

Thornton, Clark. Pilgrims, Pioneers, Patriots and People of Quality: The Pedigree of

     General James Longstreet.  Atlanta: The Author, 2000.   

Wert, Jeffry D. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial

     Soldier. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

Memoirs

Alexander, E. Porter.  Fighting for the Confederacy: Personal Recollections of

     General E. P. Alexander. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,

     1989.

Fremantle, Lt. Col. James. Lord Walter, ed. The Fremantle Diary, a Journal

     of the Confederacy. np, 1864. Reprint, Short Hills, NJ: Burford Books, Inc., 2001.

Goree, Thomas J.  Thomas W. Cutrer, ed. Longstreet’s Aide: The Civil War

     Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of

     Virginia, 1995.

Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant: In Two Volumes. London: S. Low,

     Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886. Reprint, New York: Barnes and Noble

     Publishing, Inc. 2003.

Hood, John Bell. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and

     Confederate States Armies. New Orleans: For the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund by

     P. G. T. Beauregard, 1880. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Longstreet, James. Manassas to Appomattox: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1903.

     Reprint, New York: Konecky and Konecky, 1992.

Owen, William Miller.  In Camp and Battle with the Washington Artillery of New

     Orleans.  Boston: Ticknor, 1885. Reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University

     Press, 1995.

Sorrel, G. Moxley. At the Right Hand of Longstreet: Recollections of a Confederate

     Staff Officer. New York: Neal Publishing Co., 1905. Reprint, Lincoln, NE:

     University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Lost Cause Mythology

Connelly, Thomas L. and Barbara L. Bellows.  God and General Longstreet: The

     Lost Cause and the Southern Mind. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University

     Press, 1982.  Reprint, 1986.

Davis, William C. The Cause Lost, Myths and Realities of the Confederacy.

     Lawrence,KS: The University Press of Kansas, 1996.

Gallagher, Gary W. and Nolan, Alan T. eds., The Myth of the Lost Cause and

     Civil War History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000.

________. Lee and His Army in Confederate History.  University of North

     Carolina Press, 2001.

________. Jubal A. Early, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History: A Persistent Legacy.

     Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1995.

Osterweis, Rollin G. The Myth of the Lost Cause: 1865-1900. Hamden, CT: Archon   

     Books, 1973.

Pollard, Edward A. The Lost Cause. np. Reprint, NY: Gramercy Press, 1994.

Sears, Steven W. “General Longstreet and the Lost Cause,” American Heritage,

     Feb- March 2005.

Wilson, Charles R. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920.

     Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1980.

Battles

Bowers, John. Chickamauga and Chattanooga: The Battles That Doomed the

     Confederacy. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

Cormier, Steven A. The Siege of Suffolk: The Forgotten Campaign. Lynchburg, VA:

     H. E. Howard, Inc., 1989.

Gallagher, Gary W. ed. The Second Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate/Union

     Leadership. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1993.

Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, eds. Battles and Leaders of

     the Civil War. 4 Volumes.  New York: Century Company. 1887. Secaucus, NJ:

     Castle, 1990.

Longstreet, Helen D. Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the

     Official Records. Gainesville, GA: The Author, 1904. Reprint, Broadfoot

     Publishing, 1989.

Pfanz, Harry W.  The Battle of Gettysburg. Conshohochen PA: Eastern National Park

     and Monument Association, 1994.

________. Gettysburg—The First Day. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,

     2001.

________. Gettysburg, the Second Day. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,

     1987.

Tucker, Glen. Lee and Longstreet at Gettysburg. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill,

     1968. Reprint, Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1984.

Thomas, Wilbur. General James “Pete” Longstreet, Lee’s Old War Horse Scapegoat

     for Gettysburg. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing, 1979.

General Civil War History

Churchill, Winston.  The American Civil War. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961.

Connelly, Thomas L.  The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American

     Society. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.

Davis, William C., Pohanka, Brian C. and Troiani, Don, eds. Civil War Journal: The

     Leaders.  New York: Gramercy Books, 1997.

Eicher, David J. Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War. New York:

     Little Brown and Co., 2006.

Hagerman, Edward. The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare,

     Ideas, Organization and Field Command. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press,

     1988.

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

McWhiney, Grady and Perry D. Jamieson. Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage. The University of Alabama Press, 1982.

Sears, Stephen W. “Gettysburg in Retrospect”, Quarterly Journal of Military

     History, (Summer 2003).

Snow, William P. Lee and His Generals. Reprint, New York: Gramercy Press, 1987.

Swinton, William. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. New York: np, 1867.

     Reprint, Secaucus, NJ: The Blue and Grey Press, 1988.

Warner, Ezra. Generals in Gray. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University

     Press, 1959. Reprint, 2006.

Fiction

Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1975.

Williams, Ben Ames.  A House Divided. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.  Reprint, Paperback Ed., Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2006.

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