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During a visit to the area last week, David Whelchel stopped at the monument to his great-grandfather Lt. Gen. James Longstreet at the battlefield in Gettysburg. Whelchel is married to a York County ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Born in 1821 in South Carolina, James Longstreet graduated from West Point in 1842 and served with distinction in the Mexican War. As the officer corps split ...

I have visited Gainesville, Georgia, on and off for 30 years during my business travel. Both companies that I worked for during my long career in the global pulp and paper industry had major ...

On hundreds of courthouse lawns and public parks North and South, statues of sword-waving generals and monuments to hometown heroes of the Civil War abound. But there has always been one conspicuous ...

Although he had several times called the man his "Old War Horse," in the aftermath of Robert E. Lee's death, James Longstreet came in for unwarranted criticism from the fabricators of "The Lost Cause" ...

Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support. Offering an updated analysis rather than significant archival finds, Varon’s narrative ...

There's a certain symmetry to the debate over Civil War iconography: When a Confederate monument falls, Confederate apologists rise up. This time, they're angered by the toppling of a statue honoring ...

Elizabeth R. Varon, a professor of American history at the University of Virginia, has written a handful of groundbreaking and prize-winning books about the American Civil War. I had previously ...

Lt. Gen. James Longstreet remains the Confederacy’s most controversial senior military leader. Born in 1821, the West Point graduate, like many of his future comrades in arms, served ably during the ...

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