Military History |
Author: Elizabeth R. Varon
| Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel James “Andy” Nichols, US Army War College class of 2024
Lieutenant Colonel James “Andy” Nichols reviews Elizabeth R. Varon’s biography of James Longstreet, which Nichols calls “an engaging, well-researched account of [the general’s] journey through disunion, reconstruction, and reconciliation.” He writes that Varon “lifts Longstreet out of the Lost Cause mythology and, through careful archival work, enables readers understand a man who experienced personal and professional transformation and sought redemption.”
Keywords: James Longstreet, American Civil War, Reconstruction, Republicanism, Lost Cause