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Funny story.Longstreet became the automatic scapegoat for Southerners, especially when, after the war he became a Republican and took federal jobs.
After Gettysburg, Lee sent Longstreet south to reinforce Bragg’s army south of Chattanooga. Bragg was inept, paranoid and a jealous commander. Longstreet at Chickamauga almost rolled the Union Army commanded by the equally inept Rosecrans. Were it not for George Thomas, he would have done so. But Bragg undermined Longstreet fearing he was there to spy on him and take his command. He sent him on a circuitous march up into Tennessee without adequate provisions or troops and removed the threat to Bragg’s ego.
*I know I’m not informing you of any new insights, it’s just fun to reinforce my old readings by writing about them.
wrp
I was in the 4th grade (3rd or 4th) and the teacher introduced her new assistant, Ms. Rosecrans. I raised my hand and asked if she was related to the famous civil war general. Her eyes bugged out and she indicates, she was. My teacher was surprised and asked her “which side” to which the assistant replied “the wrong one” which confused me at the time.
Rosecrans had some success early in the war before he sh!t the bed.
Alex.