re: Better Confederate General: Jackson or Longstreet?

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Yeah I think Longstreet, knowing Jackson was gone, felt he had to do that in The Wilderness, and it was a great strategy. Unfortunately he was wounded. As far as Gettysburg goes, I don't know if we'll ever know the true story behind his impact. There was so much negative stuff put out there a few years after the war that were created to increase Lee and Jackson's reputation(who were both dead and somebody had to take the blame, Longstreet was an easy target in those days) that it would be great to know the true story

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My ancestors served in Longstreet's Corp during the war. I really believe that Lee was trying to replicate Jackson's flank March at Chancellorville with Longstreet's flank March on the second day at Gettysburg. Longstreet was certainly blamed for being slow that day. Longstreet did say that he thought that his troops performed the greatest 3 hours of fighting in the history of the war on that day.