Sep 13, 2021
Originally released on December
11, 2019 on our Patreon feed.
Lieutenant General James Longstreet is one of the more
controversial figures of the war and, especially, the Battle of
Gettysburg. But does the blame for the Confederate defeat at
Gettysburg really rest on his shoulders? Author Cory M. Pfarr has
had enough of Longstreet getting a bad rap, so he set out to set
the record straight in his new book "Longstreet at Gettysburg: A Critical Reassessment".
In this episode,
Cory and I break down some of the points of contention about
General Longstreet so that you can decide for yourself if he is the
traitor his former cohorts made him out to be in the postwar
years.
Cory M. Pfarr works for the Department of Defense
and is an American History author whose main interests span
America's Revolutionary to Civil War years. He is the author of
"John Quincy Adams's Republicanism: 'A Thousand Obstacles
Apparently Stand Before Us'" (Massachusetts Historical Society,
2014) and Longstreet at Gettysburg: A Critical Reassessment
(McFarland Publishers, 2019). He has also written articles for
North & South Magazine and Gettysburg Magazine, and has appeared on
the Pennsylvania Cable Network and C-SPAN American History TV. He
lives in Pikesville, Maryland with his wife and three
kids.
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