Former U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC held at the Hilton Anatole on Aug.6, 2022 in Dallas. Former U.S. President Donald Trump ...

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 ...

A Fresh Look at Lee's "Old War Horse" In recent years the “Lost Cause" school of southern history, championed by William Pendleton, Jubal Early, and others, that worked diligently to blame James ...

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 ...

Much has been written about how, in the late summer of 1863, elements of the Army of Northern Virginia, under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet were sent west and played a major role in the Confederate ...

The South’s most astute commander, he was an ardent defender of slavery, but his sudden Reconstruction conversion brought down fires of vengeance that burned James Longstreet’s reputation for a ...

The annual birthday celebration for Lt. Gen. James Longstreet was held Sunday, Jan. 10, at the monument erected in 1998 by the Sgt. Berry G. Benson Camp 1672 of North Augusta. The monument was placed ...

This incisive biography from historian Varon (Armies of Deliverance) offers a fresh take on Confederate general James Longstreet (1821–1904), who was Robert E. Lee’s trusted “war-horse.” Rather than ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...