He was the only Confederate General that President Johnson (not LBJ), would not offer reconciliation to.
When U.S. Grant was elected President, he summoned Longstreet to the White House, returned citizenship to him, and set him up with a job.
I wish that story was more widely known - Grant doesn't even mention it in his autobiography, (much too humble).
Wow, Confederate and controversial; who’d ever thought that would happen?
July 3rd 1863, was the death knell of the Republic as the founders envisioned it. Jeffersonian democracy was dead and the end of the war ushered in our current Federal behemoth...
Read Wert’s book on Longstreet as well as smoother studies on Longstreet and Gettysburg. I feel Jubal Early and others crucified Longstreet to cover their own failings.
I used to play a war game based on the Battle of Gettysburg with some friends. If I used Longstreet’s strategy of flanking the left of the Union line anchored on the Round Tops, with his Corps, I won every time.
Lee should have listened to Longstreet.