Showing Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History by William Garrett Piston

Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant Reconstructing the military career of one of the Confederacy's most competent but also one of its most vilified corps commanders, this book reveals how Longstreet became, in the years after Appomattox, the Judas of the Lost Cause, the scapegoat for Lee's and the South's defeat.