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The following information was sent to the Round Table on November 16, 2007:
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Dear Sir or Ma'am, I am a new author of a book titled: General James Longstreet the Confederacy's Most Modern General. It was published approximately seven months ago, and I have been letting various Civil War Roundtables and other like organizations know of it. I am a military professional (Artilleryman) and a Longstreet aficionado, thus what I wrote is fairly contrary to most writings on this general. If there is any interest concerning this general with members in your group, please pass the title along. Currently, it can be ordered directly from the publisher: Word Association Publishers.
Warm regards, For more information and how to order: General James Longstreet: the Confederacy's Most Modern General - Price: $14.95
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Word Association Publishers announces the
General James Longstreet: the Confederacy’s Most Modern General
By LTC Harold M. Knudsen
While many books and writings are available on the history of Lieutenant General James Longstreet
of the Confederate States Army, nearly the entire body of this historiography marginalizes his
accomplishments and is devoted to his falling from grace with the postwar Southern elites. This
piece of historiography aims to look at Longstreet with twenty-first century objectivity, and
abandons the Lost Cause linked hatred that many postwar Southern elites had for him and his post
war politics. While Longstreet’s political incorrectness was the reason he became ignored, politics
is completely irrelevant to the student of warfare looking to garner lessons from Longstreet’s
battles and campaigns. This work will compare the similarities of Longstreet’s innovations and
operations to certain aspects of war that became ‘standard’ in the First and Second World Wars. Interpreting Longstreet through the comparison of his methods to twentieth century methods shows Longstreet was a very modern general. Even more important than identifying Longstreet’s originality is identifying how his actions greatly added to the changing complexion of warfare. Some of his innovations were the early origins of prominent facets in twentieth century warfare, and he clearly established his legacy as a modern innovator as early as 1862. But only now are the postwar negative portrayals of Longstreet faded enough for him to emerge as the Confederacy’s most modern general.
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