One of the Confederacy's most loyal adherents and articulate
advocates was Lieutenant General James Longstreet's aide-de-camp,
Thomas Jewett Goree. Present at Longstreet's headquarters and party
to the counsels of Robert E. Lee and his lieutenants, Goree wrote
incisively on matters of strategy and politics and drew revealing
portraits of Longstreet, Jefferson Davis, P. G. T. Beauregard, John
Bell Hood, J. E. B. Stuart, and others of Lee's inner circle. His
letters are some of the richest and most perceptive from the Civil
War period. In addition to their inside view of the campaigns of
the Confederacy, Goree's Civil War letters shed light on their
remarkable author, a onetime lawyer whose growing interest in
politics and desire for "immediate secession", as he wrote to his
mother in 1860, led him in July 1861 to Virginia and a new career
as Longstreet's associate. He stayed with Longstreet through the
war, ultimately becoming a major and participating in nearly all
the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia. His letters include
vivid descriptions of many battles, including Blackburn's Ford,
Seven Pines, Yorktown, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg,
Chickamauga, the siege of Petersburg, and the surrender at
Appomattox. Fortunate in war, he was exposed to constant fire for
seven hours in the battle of Williamsburg. Although his saddle and
accoutrements were struck seventeen times, he never received a
wound. Thomas Cutrer has collected all of Goree's wartime
correspondence to his family, as well as his travel diary from June
- August 1865, in which he recorded his trip with Longstreet from
Appomattox to Talledaga, Alabama. As a special feature Cutrer
includes Goree's postwar letters to andfrom Longstreet and others
that discuss the war and touch on questions regarding military
operations. With its wide scope and rich detail, Longstreet's Aide
represents an invaluable addition to the Civil War letter
collections published in recent years. While Goree's letters will
fascinate Civil War buffs, they also provide a unique opportunity
for scholars of social and military history to witness from inside
the workings of both an extended Southern family and the forces of
the Confederacy.
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