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James Longstreet foi um militar dos Estados Unidos, um dos principais oficiais das Forças Armadas confederadas durante a Guerra da Secessão e um dos colaboradores mais próximos de Robert E. Lee. Foi também um dos personagens controvertidos daquela guerra. Longstreet tem sido frequentemente citado como um tático brilhante, um dos primeiros generais a entender o impacto do advento das armas de alma raiada sobre o modo de conduzir a guerra. Por outro lado, não alcançou sucesso quando obteve comando independente e diversas fontes têm questionado a sua conduta em diversos episódios da guerra, particularmente na Batalha de Gettysburg. As críticas notavelmente ácidas têm sido desferidas pelos partidários do movimento “Lost Cause”. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Janeiro 1821 – 2. Janeiro 1904
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“The surrender of the former political relations of the negro”

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James Longstreet

Letter to the New Orleans Times (19 March 1867)
Contexto: The surrender of the Confederate armies in 1865 involved: 1. The surrender of the claim to the right of secession. 2. The surrender of the former political relations of the negro. 3. The surrender of the Southern Confederacy. These issues expired on the fields last occupied by the Confederate armies. There they should have been buried. The soldier prefers to have the sod that receives him when he falls cover his remains. The political questions of the war should have been buried upon the fields that marked their end.

“If it wasn't about slavery, then I don't know what else it was about.”

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Regarding the American Civil War, as quoted in Letter to the Fauquier Times Democrat https://web.archive.org/web/20110518020556/http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2434 (2011), by Clark B. "Bud" Hall, Middleburg, Virginia
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“Great God! I thought to myself, how my heart swells out out to such magnanimous touch of humanity. Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?”

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The New York Times http://www.granthomepage.com/intlongstreet.htm (24 July 1885)

“General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.”

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As quoted in General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier: A Biography https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0671709216 (1993), by Jeffry D. Wert, New York: Simon & Schuster, p. 283

“The highest of human laws is the law that is established by appeal to arms. The sword has decided in favor of the North, and what they claimed as principles cease to be principles, and are become law. The views that we hold cease to be principles because they are opposed to law. It is our duty to abandon ideas that are obsolete and conform to the requirements of law.”

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Letter to the New Orleans Times http://civilwartalk.com/threads/im-a-good-ole-rebel.34939/page-2#post-352510 (8 June 1867)