Longstreet at Gettysburg

A Critical Reassessment

Cory M. Pfarr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

215 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7404-9 (ISBN)

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Not until now has a book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg been presented. A frank response to history's challenge for a penetrating analysis of Longstreet's actions at Gettysburg, this book endeavours to set the record straight about Longstreet's performance.

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 Longstreet's treatment by scholars, this book presents an alternative view of Longstreet as an effective military leader, and refutes over a century of negative evaluations of his performance.

Cory M. Pfarr works for the Department of Defense. He lives in Fallston, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Maps

Foreword by Harold M. Knudsen

Prologue: Abandoned by History

✦ Pre-Campaign and Day One

1. The Quibbling of Historians

2. The Indispensable J.E.B. Stuart Roams East

3. Lee Hesitates Without Stuart

4. Lee and Longstreet Deliberate Tactical Offensive

5. An Unfortunate Position Considered … and Reconsidered

✦ Day Two

6. The Seething Disagreement and Apparent Apathy That Weren’t

7. Intelligence Woes, Indecision and an Unfortunate Position

Re-Reconsidered

8. A Misconceived Attack Plan Set in Motion

9. The First Corps March Conundrum

10. McLaws Ordered to Attack an Occupied Road

11. Hood’s Proposition

12. Longstreet According to McLaws

13. Longstreet’s Wave Rolls Forward

14. Lee Watches Hill’s Partial Assault

15. The Idleness of the Second Corps

16. The Attack Fizzles Out

17. The Night of the Second Day Controversy

✦ Day Three

18. Lee and Longstreet Prepare for a Last-Ditch Effort

19. The Artillery Support Plan for the Grand Charge

20. The Alexander-Longstreet Pre-Attack Dialogue

21. The Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge

22. The Wilcox and Lang Issue

23. Lee’s Costly Decision

24. Longstreet Assesses Lee and Gettysburg

25. Shouldering the Burden of Gettysburg

Postscript: Reminiscences

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2019
Zusatzinfo	27 photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4766-7404-3 / 1476674043
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7404-9 / 9781476674049
Zustand	Neuware