I do not know if that was said about Longstreet but it definitely was said about U.S.Grant.He saw a soldier hitting a horse and the soldier was severely punished.
I am very glad on my first day as a member of this site to comment on my secondfavorite person in the way, Longstreet.
First of all Berenger was brilliant. His handling of the scene with Armistead speaking of his last words with Hancock
before the war was superb. I also thought his control of the scene with actor Harrison early in the movie was fine.
"What have you got", he says.
I view Longstreet's wounding at the Wilderness as fate. He was rolling up Hancock hard and head he and Jenkins and
others not been shot - things could have gotten dire for Grant. I also view him nothaving Pickett's division on the second day at Gettysburg as fate. We seedown the years that any assistqance to the right of Ros Wright's Gerogians when they
hit the top of Cemetery Ridge would have been major trouble for Meade. But first, Posey, and then Mahone show
what cowards and imbeciles they were.
The best portrait of Longstreet hangs in the lobby of the museum at Chickamauga. Where he rolled up the Union
left, and had it not been for Thomas on Snodgrass Hill, would havebooted Rosecrans out of Chattanooga entirely.