Didn't he do enough?

[Pat Young]

Poor misunderstood Longstreet, people were all over Benedict Arnold too.

You are saying he was a traitor? Interesting comment.

 

[diane]

Poor misunderstood Longstreet, people were all over Benedict Arnold too.

Well, there's a memorial to his leg, at least! The rest of him would have been hung if it wasn't in England...where they didn't like him any better than Longstreet was liked in Richmond. But come now, didn't Arnold do a whole lot more damage? He ratted out West Point, almost got his good buddy Washington captured, got John Andre killed and still didn't get the honors and position he was wanting! But, you have to have a country in order to betray it - the country Longstreet fought to bring into being was stillborn. And, curiously maybe, most all of those rebel generals considered themselves Americans - just differed in opinion on how the Constitution worked!

 

[CSA Today]

Longstreet is still respected at West Point, where as Arnold ' s name does not exist there.

Not surprising considering which traitor played quisling to whom?

 

[nitrofd]

Not surprising considering which traitor played quisling to whom?

Quilting got his due reward, EXECUTION.

 

[rhettbutler1865]

I think Longstreet was one of those people who approached things from an entirely practical perspective. He realized the war was lost, the southern cause was "gone" and the best thing that could be done for the people and country was to truly reunite and rebuild.

Well said...and truly sad that he had to endure so much humiliation--he did not deserve it!

 

[Rob9641]

Poor misunderstood Longstreet, people were all over Benedict Arnold too.

It's tough for people who accept what happened and get on with their lives. Lots of people enjoy wallowing in their defeat and take it out on people who don't. I don't get why people like to wallow 150 years later, but hey, humans are humans.

 

[Rebforever]

You are saying he was a traitor? Interesting comment.

What a stretch!!

 

[CSA Today]

Well, there's a memorial to his leg, at least! The rest of him would have been hung if it wasn't in England...where they didn't like him any better than Longstreet was liked in Richmond. But come now, didn't Arnold do a whole lot more damage? He ratted out West Point, almost got his good buddy Washington captured, got John Andre killed and still didn't get the honors and position he was wanting! But, you have to have a country in order to betray it - the country Longstreet fought to bring into being was stillborn. And, curiously maybe, most all of those rebel generals considered themselves Americans - just differed in opinion on how the Constitution worked!

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[Rebforever]

Well said...and truly sad that he had to endure so much humiliation--he did not deserve it!

He brought it on himself.

 

[CSA Today]

It's tough for people who accept what happened and get on with their lives. Lots of people enjoy wallowing in their defeat and take it out on people who don't. I don't get why people like to wallow 150 years later, but hey, humans are humans.

Yes it is tough but most people get along with their own lives without collaborating with the corrupt suppressors of their own people.

 

[hanna260]

C'mon guys. Really? I'm not the thread police and @FarawayFriend may be just fine with this- so if she or the mods want me to take this down I will- but this sort of sniping at a man who is long dead on a nice thread seems pretty counter-productive to me.

Now for my answer: I like Longstreet a lot. He had the courage of his convictions and was a great corps commander. I definitely think he's coming back in vogue- has been coming back in vogue for a long time, thanks to the Killer Angels and some who felt the need to look back at his record, and see that it didn't stink nearly as much as some made it out to.

 

[jgoodguy]

Yes it is tough but most people get along with their own lives without collaborating with the corrupt suppressors of their own people.

You mean patriots who spent their life's blood and fortune to suppress an rebellion.

 

[jgoodguy]

C'mon guys. Really? I'm not the thread police and @FarawayFriend may be just fine with this- so if she or the mods want me to take this down I will- but this sort of sniping at a man who is long dead on a nice thread seems pretty counter-productive to me.

Now for my answer: I like Longstreet a lot. He had the courage of his convictions and was a great corps commander.

I like Longstreet and he was not the only one to be affected adversely after the war. .

John S. Mosby

Mosby's friendship with Grant, and his work with those whom many Southerners considered "the enemy", made Mosby a highly controversial figure among some Virginians. He received death threats, his boyhood home was burned down, and at least one attempt was made to assassinate him. Reflecting on the animosity shown to him by his fellow Virginians, Mosby stated in a May 1907 letter that "There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him.

 

[diane]

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What did Longstreet do before the defeat of the Confederacy to betray his country? That's the only time he could have betrayed it - after the defeat, there were no Confederate states.

 

[CSA Today]

What did Longstreet do before the defeat of the Confederacy to betray his country? That's the only time he could have betrayed it - after the defeat, there were no Confederate states.

What about the people of the former Confederate State of Louisiana? Does your rationale give Longstreet the right to turn his militia loose on his former comrades and, as a result, have those former comrades in arms look upon him in fond regard and not as a self-serving traitorous sleazebag?

 

[CSA Today]

You mean patriots who spent their life's blood and fortune to suppress an rebellion.

Are we on the same topic?

 

[Pat Young]

What a stretch!!

You compared him to Benedict Arnold. No stretching required.

 

[jgoodguy]

What about the people of the former Confederate State of Louisiana? Does your rationale give Longstreet the right to turn his militia loose on his former comrades and, as a result, have those former comrades in arms look upon him in fond regard and not as a self-serving traitorous sleazebag?

Got some evidence for this?

 

[CSA Today]

Got some evidence for this?

http://www.knowla.org/entry/757/&view=image-gallery

 

[CSA Today]

You mean patriots who spent their life's blood and fortune to suppress an rebellion.

Do you have a source for whatever it is you are talking about?