PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION By Major-General D. E. Sickles, U.S.A.

LEE AND LONGSTREET AT HIGH TIDE

CHAPTER I THE STORY OF GETTYSBURG

CHAPTER II LEE CHANGES PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

CHAPTER III PICKETT'S CHARGE

CHAPTER IV GORDON'S "ESTABLISHED FACTS" AND PENDLETON'S FULMINATIONS

CHAPTER V LONGSTREET'S VERSION OF THE OPERATIONS OF JULY 2

CHAPTER VI PENDLETON'S REPORT

CHAPTER VII PENDLETON'S UNRELIABLE MEMORY

CHAPTER VIII GENERAL LONGSTREET'S AMERICANISM

CHAPTER IX FINALE

LONGSTREET THE MAN

HIS BOYHOOD DAYS

LIFE-LONG FRIENDSHIP OF GRANT AND LONGSTREET

HIS FIRST ROMANCE

HEROIC CITIZEN OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD

THE CHRISTIAN PATRIOT LOVED THE SOUTH TO THE LAST

WORSHIPPED BY THE SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY

HIS COUNTRY HOME IN PICTURESQUE NORTH GEORGIA

LONGSTREET ON THE FIELDS OF MEXICO F

CHAPTER I THE WINNING OF OUR WESTERN EMPIRE

CHAPTER II PECULIARITIES OF SCOTT AND TAYLOR

CHAPTER III UNPRETENTIOUS LIEUTENANT GRANT

CHAPTER IV PLEASANT INCIDENTS OF CAMP LIFE AT CORPUS CHRISTI

CHAPTER V INTO THE INTERIOR OF MEXICO

CHAPTER VI FROM CONTRERAS TO CHAPULTEPEC

CHAPTER VII LONGSTREET'S HONEYMOON

GREAT BATTLES BEFORE AND AFTER GETTYSBURG G

THE FIRST MANASSAS

WILLIAMSBURG

FRAYSER'S FARM

MARCH AGAINST POPE AND THE SECOND MANASSAS

THE INVASION OF MARYLAND AND THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

FREDERICKSBURG

CHICKAMAUGA

IN EAST TENNESSEE

THE WILDERNESS

THE CURTAIN FALLS AT APPOMATTOX

APPENDIX

LONGSTREET

JAMES LONGSTREET

THE FUNERAL CEREMONIES ( A. S. Hardy, in the Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia. )

TRIBUTES FROM THE PRESS ( Washington, D. C., Post. )

RESOLUTIONS BY CAMPS AND CHAPTERS ( Sterling Price Camp. )

PERSONAL LETTERS

TRIBUTE FROM THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Notes

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