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Old 03-04-2007, 05:35 PM
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Hey i am new here at civilwartalk.com, but if you read my profile i am currently doing an extended essay (basically a thesis but smaller) on the histography on General james Longsteet's contraversy for pickett's charge. I need to find historians that covered the problem from the day it happened up to modern historians. I think it should be an interesting topic. Any one have any pointers (books, names, sites..etc)
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Old 03-04-2007, 07:46 PM
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"Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History" by William G. Piston

"General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier" by Jeffry D. Wert

"James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier, the Controversy"

-these books should give you a good start on Longstreet.

I don't think there were any "historians" lurking about Gettysburg at the time, but there were several newspaper reporters.

Sam Wilkeson - NY Times
Whitelaw Reid - Cincinnati Gazette
Lorenzo Crounse - NY Times
G. W. Hosmer - NY Herald
Charles Coffin - Boston Journal

These I know about from Trudeau's Gettysburg
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How do you pronounce that? Welcome to the board,
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Old 03-05-2007, 03:26 AM
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Hey thanks for the help... i think that will help me really get started... The name is pronounced as an acronym V.I.S. which are the initials of my school. THe e^2 referes to e squared or EE which is a common acronym for the extended essay. Thanks for the help. I look forward to joining in on discussions when i get my knowledge.
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