"between Jackson and Longstreet his orders weren’t carried out. Jackson spent 7 days dragging his feet and Longstreet changed his marching orders on his own. This jammed the roads up and the other units could get in the line of battle."
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Sorry, but you're not describing Longstreet during the Seven Days. Jackson was physically exhausted, but Longstreet performed well during the Seven Days. I think you may have it confused with Seven Pines, which was not part of the Seven Days, where Longstreet clearly made an error in judgment.
Lee wrote the following in a dispatch to Davis: "Longstreet is a Capital soldier. His recommendations hitherto have been good, & I have confidence in him." [Lee's Dispatches, p. 11] After the Seven Days were over, Lee said Longstreet was "the Staff of my right hand." [Thomas J. Goree to S. W. Goree, 21 Jul 1862] After the Seven Days, Lee got rid of four generals, G. W. Smith, Benjamin Huger, John B. Magruder, and Theophilus Holmes. He then reorganized the ANV and gave Longstreet responsbility for five divisions while giving Jackson responsibility for only three divisions. In his book about his trip to America, Arthur Fremantle wrote of Longstreet that "By the soldiers he is invariably spoken of as 'the best fighter in the whole army.' " [Arthur Fremantle, <u>Three Months in the Confederate States,</u> pp. 246-247]
Unfortunately, after Lee's death there was an organized campaign of character assassination against Longstreet that was orchestrated by Jubal Early, William Nelson Pendleton, and William Jones. This cabal went so far as to fabricate the charge that Lee had ordered a dawn attack on 2 July at Gettysburg which Longstreet failed to execute as ordered. Lee's staff officers, Walter Taylor and Charles Marshall, attested there was no such order ever given. The charge that Longstreet was always slow was also a fabrication of Early's.
Regards,
Cash