James Longstreet
person
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first heard Mar 2025
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Confederate general who later became a Republican and was erased from Southern memory
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentRobert ReminiA Short History of the United States · A Short History of the United States - Robert Remini · 7:02:18 · 5d ago
…In the summer of 1863, Roscrans, by a series of skillful marchings, forced Bragg to abandon Chattanooga, but Bragg was now greatly strengthened by soldiers from the Mississippi and by Longstreet's division from Lee's Army in Virginia.…
Robert ReminiA Short History of the United States · Short History of the United States - Edward Channing · 6:35:14 · 5 Sep
…In the summer of eighteen sixty three, Roscrans, by a series of skillful marchings, forced Bragg to abandon Chattanooga, but Bragg was now greatly strengthened by soldiers from the Mississippi and by Longstreet's division from Lee's army in Virginia.…
Aaron Sheehan-DeanAmerican History Hit · Why Did Reconstruction Fail? · 12:40 · 24 Aug
…And among most of them, there are a handful, you know, some prominent ones and most prominently, of course, James Longstreet, the former Confederate general, Lee's right hand in the war, John Mosby up in Virginia, who find ways to make peace with both the Republican Party and black Southerners and think about a future collectively.…
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