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Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose

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Bruscino notes that the growing broad-mindedness produced by the war had limits: it did not extend to African Americans

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A Fine Opportunity Lost: Longstreet’s East Tennessee Campaign, November 1863 – April 1864 (Lowe - CWC) legacy hats Lee betrayed his nation inby 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