In “Longstreet,” Elizabeth R. Varon dissects the life and legacy of a Confederate general who became a devoted supporter of Reconstruction. By Brenda Wineapple Brenda Wineapple is currently a fellow ...

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At a time when merit of the Civil War and its central and peripheral figures are being debated in the marketplace of ideas and opinions, American historian Elizabeth R. Varon has produced a timely ...

120 years ago today, Confederate General James Longstreet died, leaving behind a complicated legacy as a former slave owner who later supported Black suffrage and Reconstruction. What does his story ...

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.

Lt. Gen. James Longstreet remains the Confederacy’s most controversial senior military leader. Born in 1821, the West Point graduate, like many of his future comrades in arms, served ably during the ...

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 ...

James Longstreet was the most loyal of Confederates. A Southerner, slave owner and second in command to Robert E. Lee, Longstreet, despite grave misgivings about Lee's strategy for the battle of ...