James Longstreet was the most loyal of Confederates. A Southerner, slave owner and second in command to Robert E. Lee, Longstreet, despite grave misgivings about Lee's strategy for the battle of ...
If you stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the ...