General James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam Fredericksburg Chickamauga Gettysburg and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. Yet he was largely held to blame for the Confederacy s defeat at Gettysburg. General James Longstreet sheds new light on the controversial commander and the man Robert E. Lee called my old war horse.