Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I HIS BOOK EXISTS only because I received support and assistance from many kind people. I gratefully acknowledge my debt to them. My thanks go first to Professor Thomas L. Connelly of the University of South Carolina, for his invaluable advice and constant encouragement . The parallel between my approach to Longstreet and his to Lee is deliberate, although we have not always reached the same conclusions about either man. The following individuals read one or more drafts of the manuscript and provided helpful criticism: Professors Walter B. Edgar and John Scott Wilson of the University of South Carolina; the late Henry Lee Swint, Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University; and Archer Jones, Professor Emeritus, North Dakota State University. I also wish to thank the anonymous reader who evaluated the manuscript for the University of Georgia Press. I am indebted to the staffs of the following institutions for their courteous assistance during my research: the Chicago Historical Society ; the Swem Library, College of William and Mary; the Perkins Library , Duke University; the Woodruff Library, Emory University; the Gettysburg National Battlefield Park Library; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California ; the Library of Congress; the Louisiana State University Libraries; the Mississippi State Department of Archives and History; the National Archives and Records Service; the New York Public Library; xiii T xiv Acknowledgments the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History; the Rutherford B. Hayes Memorial Library, Fremont, Ohio; the Tennessee State Library and Archives; the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University; the United States Army Institute for Military History, Carlisle Barracks; the University of Georgia Libraries; the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Alderman Library, University of Virginia ; the Virginia Historical Society; the Virginia State Library. I wish to acknowledge in particular the assistance of Dr. Edward Campbell of the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond; Dr. DArcy Jones of the Georgia State Department of Archives and History; Susan Floyd of the Georgia Historical Society; Betty Kondayan of the Washington and Lee University Library; and Jenni M. Rodda of the Valentine Museum, Richmond. My Metairie neighbor Stephen Morillo , creator of the cartoon strip "Cayenne," inked in the maps I drew, for which I am very grateful. Edward M. Boagni, M.D., of Baton Rouge extended gracious hospitality to a perfect stranger and allowed me to use his private collection of Civil War letters. In this connection I must also thank Dr. John Loos of Louisiana State University, for introducing me to Dr. Boagni and for turning his office over to me for workspace. Longstreet biographer Wilbur Thomas generously shared with me papers from his private collection for which I am very grateful. One of the delights of this project was my contact with the late Abbott M.Gibney, author of an as yet unpublished biography of Longstreet for juvenile readers. Mr. Gibney shared with me materials from his private collection and made numerous beneficial suggestions. Invaluable logistical support during my research trips was provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Williamsof New Orleans, and by the Robert H. Belser, Sr. and Jr., families of Nashville. I also wish to thank Dr. Stephen Wise, currently director of the Marine Corps Museum at Parris Island, South Carolina, for countless favors and suggestions during our graduate student days. I owe a special debt to Karen Orchard and Debbie Winter of the University of Georgia Press, for their patience and faith in my work. My thanks go also to Marcia Brubeck for her excellent copyediting. Acknowledgments xv I could not have completed this project without the love and support of my family—my wife Nancy; my mother, Laura Caldwell Piston; my brothersJim and Rob and their families; my in-laws,James and Esther Wall; and my late grandparents, Mannie Mae and Charles H. Piston. My thanks go to them above all others. This page intentionally left blank Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant This page intentionally left blank ...