GDG- Help! Need some advice..

[Margaret D. Blough]

Unfortunately, the single best one, IMHO, is out of print and obtainable only (and not cheaply) through the used book market: Donald Sanger's "Longstreet the Soldier" portion of the Sanger and Hay "James Longstreet" (Hay completed the postwar years, "The Politician", after Sanger's death). Sanger, who also did his doctoral dissertation on Longstreet, was a career army officer and combat veteran.  He evaluated Longstreet's career with a soldier's perspective, not distorted by Lost Cause attacks.  He can certainly be critical at points but it's fair criticism and he does much to rebut a lot of the myths.  (his work on how long it had to take, under the best of circumstances, to get Hood (absent Law) and McLaws' men to Gettysburg is fascinating.)

Regards,

Margaret

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From: keith mackenzie <bluzdad at yahoo.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> Just Kidding Jim. It's really not that big a shelf. Anyway, Are there any 
> authors of repute that one might say take the opposing viewpoint to "Longstreet 
> as Satans Apprentice?" I think I'd like to check into that a little deeper. 
> It's raining today too. 
> K. 
> 
> James Cameron wrote: 
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> << I never heard of these books. (Small wonder). who'se this guy Krick? He 
> must have some credibility for Gallagher to include him in a showcase, or 
> would he fit well on my bookshelf "Books that drive Jim Cameron to 
> distraction"? >> 
> 
> Bob Krick is very well known in the CW community, and either was or still is 
> a historian at Fredericksburg. Not surprising at all that Gallagher 
> included his work. In fact, it may well have been precisely because he has 
> a (well earned) reputation for being very down on Longstreet, since he 
> provides an alternate perspective. 
> 
> And, no, it doesn't drive me to distraction in the least. Krick's attitude 
> on Longstreet is well known, so at least when you read him, you know where 
> he's coming from. Once you know that, you can read him and either agree or 
> disagree. Besides, I've never bee all that much of a Longstreet scholar, 
> one way or the other, that I'd be inclined to get too bent out of shape 
> about it, one way of the other. 
> 
> 
> Jim Cameron 
> 
> 
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