Longstreet Captain Charles Blackford

Stiles/Akin

Sergeant Major
Joined
Apr 1, 2016
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Late September 1863
Captain Charles Blackford, who came west with Longstreet's troops saw enough to be convinced as he wrote his wife that “ Bragg ought to be relieved or disaster is sure to result. The men have no faith.

The difference between this army and Lee's is very striking. When the men move in the Army of Northern Virginia, they think they are doing the proper thing, whether it be backward or forward, and its success anticipated is not secured, at all events, it is not Lee's fault.

Down here, the men seem to feel the wrong thing is being done whatever it be, and when success is secured, they attributed it to anybody else than Bragg. Thus they give the whole credit of Chickamauga to Longstreet.”
General James Longstreet
The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier
By Jeffry D. Wert
Page 324

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