Gen Longstreet (not without his faults) had a large bullseye on his back from the 1870’s(+). Freeman, and later Dowdey’s EPIC Lee biography in 1965 picks, carries on the disdain for Longstreet. Never misses an oppt’y to beat on him. No doubt to build up the South’s much needed hero status toward Lee and find fault elsewhere. Longstreet’s joining the R Party later sealed the deal even his family considered him a traitor at that point.
Longstreet is from Gainesville, Ga - not far from where I was raised. I have a lot of respect for him.
IMHO he did his best given his circumstances and knowledge at hand throughout the war.
He’ll always be in Jackson’s shadow unfortunately.