Longstreet's Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J Goree

by Thomas Jewett Goree

Book Overview

One of the Confederacy's most loyal adherents and articulate advocates was Lieutenant Grant James Longstreet's aide-de-camp, Thomas Jewett Goree. Present at Longstreet's headquarters and party to the counsels of Robert E. Lee and his lieutenants, Goree wrote incisively on matters of strategy and politics and drew revealing portraits of Longstreet, Jefferson Davis, P.G.T. Beauregard, John Bell Hood, J.E.B. Stuart, and others of Lee's inner circle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081393785X
• ISBN13: 9780813937854
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Reading

Great reading. Goree has a way with words and this is primary source reading at it's best. Entertaining, insightful as only a member of Longstreet's inner circle could be. Best of all, he doesn't say much about the endless brohauhau concerning Gettyburg. What a relief. Great appendex. Letters to and from Gen. Longstreet, etc. A good read for anyone.