Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records
Transcriber's Notes
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Yours Truly James Longstreet Lieutenant-General
LEE AND LONGSTREET AT HIGH TIDE
GETTYSBURG IN THE LIGHT OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS
BY HELEN D. LONGSTREET
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR GAINESVILLE, GA. 1904
Copyright, 1904 By Helen D. Longstreet
Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia
TO LONGSTREET AT GETTYSBURG
FROM HER WHO SINCE CHILDHOOD HAS HELD HIS HEROIC DEEDS AS SOLDIER AND CITIZEN AMONG THE PRICELESS INHERITANCES OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC
Helen Dortch Longstreet
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIFE-LONG FRIENDSHIP OF GRANT AND LONGSTREET
HIS FIRST ROMANCE
HEROIC CITIZEN OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
THE CHRISTIAN PATRIOT LOVED THE SOUTH TO THE LAST
WORSHIPPED BY THE SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
HIS COUNTRY HOME IN PICTURESQUE NORTH GEORGIA
WILLIAMSBURG
FRAYSER’S FARM
MARCH AGAINST POPE AND THE SECOND MANASSAS
THE INVASION OF MARYLAND AND THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
FREDERICKSBURG
CHICKAMAUGA
IN EAST TENNESSEE
THE WILDERNESS
THE CURTAIN FALLS AT APPOMATTOX
JAMES LONGSTREET
THE FUNERAL CEREMONIES
TRIBUTES FROM THE PRESS
RESOLUTIONS BY CAMPS AND CHAPTERS
PERSONAL LETTERS
TRIBUTE FROM THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
THE SONS FOLLOW THE FATHERS
FOOTNOTES
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