A Fine Opportunity Lost: Longstreet’s East Tennessee Campaign, November 1863 – April 1864 (Lowe - CWC) June 2021 Joe is a past President

Joe is a past President of both the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable and The Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides

As a result

This collection of letters from the front lines offers a bird’s-eye view of some of the Civil War’s most hard-fought military campaigns

and others to a new generation

the fate of the Confederacy

A Fine Opportunity Lost: Longstreet’s East Tennessee Campaign, November 1863 – April 1864 (Lowe - CWC) June 2021 Joe is a past Presidentby Ed Lowe For James Longstreet, the transfer to the Western Theater in 1863 offered opportunity. For his opponent Ambrose Burnside, the hope of redemption. Longstreet, whom Robert E. Lee called his Warhorse, had long labored in the shadow of both his army commander and the now dead Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson. When Confederate fortunes took a turn for the worse in Tennessee, Lee dispatched Longstreet and most of his First Corps to reinforce Braxton