intersting . thanks
no idea he was ambassador to turkey and lived till 1904
Longstreet's stategic and tactical thinking beautifully anticipated the First World War 50 years before its time. It cost the European nations millions of lives to discover what paying attention to Longstreet could have taught them.
Wasn't he best man at Grant's wedding, before the war?
"After the war he befriended Grant "
Longstreet and Grant were well aquainted years before the war, IIRC, Longstreet attended Grant's wedding.
Codington's "Gettysburg: A Study in Command" remains the best analysis of the Lee-Longstreet debate.
In Missouri where I was born, there were no nicey, nicey make up feelings after the second war of independence. It was the Balkans before, during, and for many a decade afterwards. The book and movie titled, "Ride With The Devil" best depicts it all.
Come to think on it, to this day in some parts, it still does not pay to scratch too far beneath the thin veneer of civility, old and bitter hatreds die hard.
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