Reviews for Confederate Struggle for Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West

The average rating for Confederate Struggle for Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-07-15 00:00:00 Dick Wang This is the rare book on the Civil War that I couldn't finish. I figured out long ago that Longstreet was a selfish, conceited schemer and have read many times that his independent command in east Tennessee was a bust, and this book goes into minute detail explaining all that. Reading it is torture, which is against the Geneva Convention, so I quit. Lucky for Longstreet that he was a brilliant second-in-command under Lee. Then he became a Republican.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-20 00:00:00 Alessandra Zacchino Longstreet in the West - here is a book that has no agenda. Did he make mistakes? Yes. Did he let his feuds with his subordinates get out of control? Yes. That is all detailed here. But what is also explained is how Bragg never trusted him - how his Corp was sent off on a mission to East Tenn with scant supplies and almost no transportation and no support. Extensive use of primary source material - well written.