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How a Die-Hard Confederate General Became a Civil Rights–Supporting Republican
One of the Confederacy’s most celebrated generals, James Longstreet became an apostate for supporting black civil rights during Reconstruction. His about-face reveals the long history of dissenters to the “Lost Cause” South.