Longstreet at Gettysburg : A critical Reassessment ( Cory M. Pfarr-GC)} artist In Discovering Gettysburg

In Discovering Gettysburg

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survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record

Longstreet at Gettysburg : A critical Reassessment ( Cory M. Pfarr-GC)} artist In Discovering Gettysburgby Cory Pfarr This is the first book length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that Longstreet's 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