Historical reputation: Repetitive. Longstreet's memoirs were already mentioned earlier in the article. Also, noting the failure of these additions to conform to the existing citation style of the article.← Previous revisionRevision as of 22:46, 13 November 2026 Line 316: Line 316: ==Legacy== ==Legacy== ===Historical reputation=== ===Historical reputation=== Longstreet was subject to vigorous attacks over his war record beginning in the 1870s and continuing after his death. He published his memoir, ''From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America'', in 1896, which he wrote in part to defend himself against what he described as misrepresentations from the "political passions and prejudices of the times."{{Cite book |last=Longstreet |first=James |title=From Manassas to Appomattox: memoirs of the Civil War in America |last2=Robertson |first2=James I. |last3=Keller |first3=Christian B. |date=2020 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-04705-2 |location=Bloomington, Indiana |page=xxix}} In addition, his widow published ''Lee and Longstreet at High Tide'' in his defense and stated that "the South was seditiously taught to believe that the Federal Victory was wholly the fortuitous outcome of the culpable disobedience of General Longstreet".{{cite web |url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-881 |title=Helen Dortch Longstreet (1863–1962) |last=Gardner |first=Sarah E. |date=May 9, 2003 |publisher=New Georgia Encyclopedia |access-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-date=October 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026095142/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-881 |url-status=live }} Nevertheless, these works did little to affect public perception.{{Cite book |last=Piston |first=William Garrett |title=Lee's tarnished lieutenant: James Longstreet and his place in southern history |date=1987 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-1229-3 |location=Athens |pages=153-157}} Longstreet was subject to vigorous attacks over his war record beginning in the 1870s and continuing after his death. His widow published ''Lee and Longstreet at High Tide'' in his defense and stated that "the South was seditiously taught to believe that the Federal Victory was wholly the fortuitous outcome of the culpable disobedience of General Longstreet".{{cite web |url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-881 |title=Helen Dortch Longstreet (1863–1962) |last=Gardner |first=Sarah E. |date=May 9, 2003 |publisher=New Georgia Encyclopedia |access-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-date=October 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026095142/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-881 |url-status=live }} In the first half of the 20th century, Freeman kept criticism of Longstreet foremost in Civil War scholarship in his biography of Lee. Speaking of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, he writes: "The battle was being decided at that very hour in the mind of Longstreet, who at his camp, a few miles away, was eating his heart away in sullen resentment that Lee had rejected his long cherished plan of a strategic offensive and a tactical defensive."{{sfn|Gallagher|1998|p=62}} He called Longstreet's performance so sluggish that "it has often been asked why Lee did not arrest him for insubordination or order him before a court-martial".{{sfn|Gallagher|1998|p=62}} Freeman moderated his views in his later ''Lee's Lieutenants: a Study in Command'', where he states that Longstreet's "attitude was wrong but his instinct was correct. He should have obeyed orders, but the order should not have been given."{{sfn|Gallagher|1998|p=62}} [[Clifford Dowdey]], a Virginia newspaperman and novelist, was noted for his severe criticism of Longstreet in the 1950s and 1960s.{{sfn|Gallagher|1998|p=207}} In the first half of the 20th century, Freeman kept criticism of Longstreet foremost in Civil War scholarship in his biography of Lee. Speaking of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, he writes: "The battle was being decided at that very hour in the mind of Longstreet, who at his camp, a few miles away, was eating his heart away in sullen resentment that Lee had rejected his long cherished plan of a strategic offensive and a tactical defensive."{{sfn|Gallagher|1998|p=62}} He called Longstreet's performance so sluggish that "it has often been asked why Lee did not arrest him for insubordination or order him before a court-martial".{{sfn|Gallagher|1998|p=62}} Freeman moderated his views in his later ''Lee's Lieutenants: a Study in Command'', where he states that Longstreet's "attitude was wrong but his instinct was correct. He should have obeyed orders, but the order should not have been given."{{sfn|Gallagher|1998|p=62}} [[Clifford Dowdey]], a Virginia newspaperman and novelist, was noted for his severe criticism of Longstreet in the 1950s and 1960s.{{sfn|Gallagher|1998|p=207}}