From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America.

LONGSTREET, James.

Item Number: 115677

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1896.

First edition of Longstreet’s important Civil War history, with frontispiece portrait, 16 maps, and 30 illustrations of battle sites and portraits. Thick octavo, original pictorial cloth. In very good condition with light rubbing. Housed in a custom slipcase. Scarce in this condition.

Lieutenant General James Longstreet was one of the most distinguished officers in the Confederate army. He commanded under Lee, who affectionately "called him 'my old War Horse' and 'the Staff of my right hand.' Contrary to myth, Longstreet, not Stonewall Jackson, was Lee's intimate confidant, close friend and principal military adviser" (ANB). "Longstreet's tome is a milestone of great importance in Confederate literature. It tells the story of the war in the first person from one of the great generals of American history, allows him to make his case, and at least on some accounts quiets the armchair strategists who have faulted Longstreet too severely. In the main, Longstreet is correct with most of his assertions…[and] here provides ample documentation of his close relationships with Lee" (Eicher 277).