Suggested Reading
Biographies of Longstreet
Bedwell, Randall, ed. May I Quote You General Longstreet? Nashville,
TN: Cumberland House, 1999.
DiNardo, R. L. and Albert A. Nofi, eds. James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier,
the Controversy. Conshohocken, PA:
Combined Publishing, 1998.
Knudsen, Harold M. General James Longstreet:
The Confederacy's Most Modern General. Tarentum, PA:
Word Association Publishers,
2007.
Martin, David G. General Longstreet and his New Jersey Relations. Hightstown, NJ:
Longstreet House, 1998.
Piston, William Garrett. Lee’s Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
Reardon, Carol. I Have Been a Soldier All My Life. Gettysburg, PA: Farnsworth
Military Impressions, 1997.
Sanger, Donald Bridgman and Thomas Robson Hay. James Longstreet: I. Soldier,
II. Politician, Officeholder, and Writer. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1952. Reprint, Peter Smith, 1968.
Sawyer, Gordon. James Longstreet: Before Manassas and After Appomattox.
Gainesville, GA: Sawyer House Publishing, 2005.
Thornton, Clark. Pilgrims, Pioneers, Patriots and People of Quality: The
Pedigree of General James Longstreet. Atlanta: The Author, 2000.
Wert, Jeffry D. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial
Soldier. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Memoirs
Alexander, E. Porter. Fighting for the Confederacy: Personal Recollections
of General E. P. Alexander. Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina
Press, 1989.
Fremantle, Lt. Col. James. Lord Walter, ed. The Fremantle Diary, a Journal
of the Confederacy. np, 1864. Reprint, Short Hills, NJ:
Burford Books, Inc.,
2001.
Goree, Thomas J. Thomas W. Cutrer, ed. Longstreet’s Aide: The Civil War Letters
of Major Thomas J. Goree. Charlottesville, VA:
University Press of Virginia,
1995.
Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant: In Two Volumes. London:
S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886. Reprint, New York:
Barnes and Noble
Publishing, Inc. 2003.
Haskell, John Cheves. The Haskell Memoirs. Edited by Gilbert E. Govan and James W. Livingood.
New York: Putnam, 1960.
Hood, John Bell. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States
and Confederate States Armies. New Orleans:For the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund
by P. G. T. Beauregard, 1880. Reprint, Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Longstreet, James. Manassas to Appomattox. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott,
1903. Reprint,
New York: Konecky and Konecky, 1992.
Moses, Raphael Jacob. Last Order of the Lost Cause. Edited by Mel Young. Lanham, Maryland:
University Press of America, 1995.
Owen, William Miller . In Camp and Battle with the Washington Artillery of New
Orleans. Boston: Ticknor, 1885. Reprint,
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1995.
Sorrel, G. Moxley . At the Right Hand of Longstreet: Recollections of a Confederate
Staff Officer. New York: Neal Publishing Co., 1905.
Reprint, Lincoln, NE:University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Lost Cause Mythology
Connelly, Thomas L. and Barbara L. Bellows . God and General Longstreet: The
Lost Cause and the Southern Mind.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press,1982. Reprint, 1986.
Davis, William C . The Cause Lost, Myths and Realities of the Confederacy.
Lawrence,KS: The University Press of Kansas, 1996.
Gallagher, Gary W. and Nolan, Alan T. eds. , The Myth of the Lost Cause and
Civil War History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
Press, 2000.
________. Lee and His Army in Confederate History. University of North
Carolina Press, 2001.
________. Jubal A. Early, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History: A Persistent
Legacy. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1995.
Osterweis, Rollin G . The Myth of the Lost Cause: 1865-1900. Hamden, CT:
Archon Books, 1973.
Pollard, Edward A . The Lost Cause. np. Reprint, NY: Gramercy Press, 1994.
Sears, Steven W . “General Longstreet and the Lost Cause,” American Heritage,
Feb- March 2005.
Wilson, Charles R . Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920.
Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1980.
Battles
Bowers, John . Chickamauga and Chattanooga: The Battles That Doomed the Confederacy.
New York: Harper Collins, 1994.
Cormier, Steven A . The Siege of Suffolk: The Forgotten Campaign. Lynchburg,
VA:
H. E. Howard, Inc., 1989.
Gallagher, Gary W. ed. The Second Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate/Union
Leadership. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1993.
Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, eds . Battles and Leaders
of the Civil War. 4 Volumes.
New York: Century Company. 1887. Reprint, Secaucus, NJ: Castle, 1990.
Longstreet, Helen D . Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light
of the Official Records. Gainesville, GA: The Author, 1904.
Reprint,Broadfoot Publishing, 1989.
Pfanz, Harry W . The Battle of Gettysburg. Conshohochen PA: Eastern National
Park and Monument Association, 1994.
________. Gettysburg—The First Day. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2001.
________. Gettysburg, the Second Day. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1987.
Sears, Stephen W . “Gettysburg in Retrospect”, Quarterly Journal of Military
History, (Summer 2003): 36-39.
Tucker, Glen . Lee and Longstreet at Gettysburg. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill,
1968. Reprint, Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1984.
Thomas, Wilbur . General James “Pete” Longstreet, Lee’s Old War Horse Scapegoat
for Gettysburg. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing, 1979.
Wittenberg, Eric J. and Petruzzi, J. David . Plenty of Blame to Go
Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg. New York:
Savas Beatie, 2006.
General Civil War History
Churchill, Winston . The American Civil War. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961.
Connelly, Thomas L . The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American
Society. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1977.
Davis, William C ., Pohanka, Brian C. and Troiani, Don, eds. Civil War Journal:
The Leaders. New York: Gramercy Books, 1997.
Eicher, David J . Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War.
New York: Little Brown and Co., 2006.
Hagerman, Edward . The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare,
Ideas, Organization and Field Command.
Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.
McPherson, James M . Battle Cry of Freedom. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988.
McWhiney, Grady and Perry D. Jamieson . Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics
and the Southern Heritage. The University of
Alabama Press, 1982.
Snow, William P . Lee and His Generals. Reprint, New York: Gramercy Press,
1987.
Swinton, William . Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. New York: np, 1867.
Reprint, Secaucus, NJ: The Blue and Grey Press, 1988.
Warner, Ezra . Generals in Gray. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University
Press, 1959. Reprint, 2006.
Fiction
Shaara, Michael . The Killer Angels. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1975.
Williams, Ben Ames .A House Divided. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1947. Reprint, Paperback Ed., Chicago: Chicago Review
Press, 2006.
________. The Unconquered. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953.

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