GDG- The real R.E.Lee

[Margaret D. Blough]

Richard DiNardo has an excellent essay comparing Longstreet and Jackson's staffs in "James Longstreet: The Man, The Soldier, The Controversy." (ed. by DiNardo and Albert A. Nofi).  DiNardo states that the most prevalent common factor among Jackson's staff was a pre-war connection to Jackson at when Jackson was at Lexington, VA.  Only two of Longstreet's staff, Thomas Walton and Peyton Manning had either a family relationship or knew Longstreet before the war.  Two of Longstreet's closest aides were Moxley Sorrel and T.J. Goree. Sorrel was a volunteer aide-de-camp at First Manassas when he and Longstreet met. Longstreet was impressed and obtained Sorrel's services with a permanent staff position.  Longstreet and Goree met while they were travelling from Texas to Richmond to offer their services to the Confederacy at the war's outset.

Regards,

Margaret


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From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
> 
> 
> <> Fairfax (one can't get much more FFV than that) and Osmun Latrobe 
> (ultimately Moxley Sorrel's successor as Longstreet's chief of staff) who 
> came from an extremely prominent Maryland family (his grandfather was the 
> great architect Benjamin Latrobe). While Longstreet was by no means 
> considered anything close to an FFV, he was connected, on his mother's side, 
> to the massive Dent and Marshall clans. Furthermore, his uncle and foster 
> father, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, was a famous and respected man: a 
> university president, lawyer, judge, politician, lay minister and prominent 
> in the Methodist Episcopal Church, author, friend of John Calhoun, and 
> father-in-law of Lucius Q.C. Lamar. Lee would have found simultaneously a 
> more diverse (including Raphael Moses, a member of South Carolina's 
> Sephardic Jewish community) but comfortably familiar environment in 
> Longstreet's mess.>> 
> 
> Very interesting, Margaret, and would fall into line with what author Pryor 
> had to say about Lee's elitism. Any idea what Jackson's staff was like in 
> comparison? 
> 
> Tom 
> 
> 
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