I was writing for love of him whose dear name and fame had been attacked; to place before his fading vision enduring appreciation of his valiant deeds as a soldier and high qualities as a gentleman. Providence decreed otherwise. While the opening chapters were running into type, the Great Captain on High called him hence, where he can at last have his wrongs on earth forever righted.

The warrior sleeps serenely to-day, undisturbed by all earthly contentions, the peace of God upon him. And I bring to his tomb this little leaf fragrant with my love, bedewed with my tears, heavy-weighted with my woe and desolation.

H. D. L.

Gainesville, Georgia, August 1, 1904.

CONTENTS

LEE AND LONGSTREET AT HIGH TIDE
PAGE
Introduction[17]
CHAPTER I
The Story of Gettysburg[31]
CHAPTER II
Lee changes Plan of Campaign[40]
CHAPTER III
Pickett’s Charge[50]
CHAPTER IV
Gordon’s “Established Facts” and Pendleton’s Fulminations[53]
CHAPTER V
Longstreet’s Version of the Operations of July 2[68]
CHAPTER VI
Pendleton’s Report[71]
CHAPTER VII
Pendleton’s Unreliable Memory[75]
CHAPTER VIII
General Longstreet’s Americanism[85]
CHAPTER IX
Finale[89]
LONGSTREET THE MAN
His Boyhood Days[93]
Life-long Friendship of Grant and Longstreet[100]
His First Romance[109]
Heroic Citizen of the Reconstruction Period[112]
The Christian Patriot loved the South to the Last[115]
Worshipped by the Soldiers of the Confederacy[119]
His Country Home in Picturesque North Georgia[123]
LONGSTREET ON THE FIELDS OF MEXICO
CHAPTER I
The Winning of our Western Empire[127]
CHAPTER II
Peculiarities of Scott and Taylor[134]
CHAPTER III
Unpretentious Lieutenant Grant[139]
CHAPTER IV
Pleasant Incidents of Camp Life at Corpus Christi[144]
CHAPTER V
Into the Interior of Mexico[149]
CHAPTER VI
From Contreras to Chapultepec[156]
CHAPTER VII
Longstreet’s Honeymoon[159]
GREAT BATTLES BEFORE AND AFTER GETTYSBURG
The First Manassas[163]
Williamsburg[167]
Frayser’s Farm[170]
March against Pope and the Second Manassas[173]
The Invasion of Maryland and the Battle of Antietam[180]
Fredericksburg[185]
Chickamauga[191]
In East Tennessee[194]
The Wilderness[205]
The Curtain Falls at Appomattox[208]
APPENDIX
Longstreet[213]
James Longstreet[214]
The Funeral Ceremonies[217]
Tributes from the Press[226]
Resolutions by Camps and Chapters[272]
Letter of President Roosevelt[330]
Personal Letters[331]
Letter of Archbishop Ireland[332]
Letter of General Frederick D. Grant[334]
Tribute From the Grand Army of the Republic[345]