Transcriber's Notes
The original text contained images of three handwritten lettersand one typed letter. Those images are identified here as “fac-simile”, andare followed by printed transcriptions. The identifications werenot in the original text and have been copiedfrom the List of Illustrations. The transcriptions were not inthe original text and have been added to this eBook by the transcribers.
LEE AND LONGSTREET
AT HIGH TIDE
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
PREFACE
This brief story of a gigantic event, and GeneralLongstreet’s part therein was arranged for publicationin book form in the fall of 1903, before his death,which occurred January 2, 1904. It is the carefullysifted story of the records and contemporaneous witnesses,and for clearness I have here and there introducedGeneral Longstreet’s personal version of someof the disputed points. But the reader will perceivethat at last it is the story of the records.
For my undertaking I drew liberally from GeneralLongstreet’s memoirs of the war, “Manassas to Appomattox;”from his stores of knowledge in the militaryart, and his treasure-house of memories of theTitanic encounter on the field of Gettysburg. The war-picturesincluded herein are also from the above-mentionedvolume. And I am gratefully indebted to CaptainLeslie J. Perry, formerly of the War RecordsOffice, Washington City, for valuable assistance.
An appendix, added since General Longstreet’sdeath, includes a small selection from the thousands oftributes from every quarter of the republic.
One of the last of the brilliant generals of the CivilWar, whose valor and skill in the command of greatarmies, is to-day the common glory of the restoredUnion, has contributed an introduction. No survivorof the great struggle has a better right to speak ofGettysburg than General Daniel E. Sickles. In thisconnection the following letter is appreciatively reprod