Lee, Jackson and Longstreet - those were the Confederate commanders who fascinate me the most. Perhaps there has never been a military leader like Robert E. Lee. Perhaps there never will be. How he valued and depended upon Stonewall Jackson, whom Lee praised as "his right arm." And after Jackson, who would compare to Lee's "Old War Horse" - General James Longstreet?
The last time these three remarkable Southern leaders were together was during the Fredericksburg Campaign of late 1862 and early 1863. They had just survived a terrible battle and had won a major victory at Fredericksburg and would soon go separate ways. Longstreet would be given kind of an independent command near Richmond, and Lee and Jackson would soon fight the Battle of Chancellorville - Lee's greatest win and Jackson's final battle. The days at Fredericksburg in early February of 1863 were the last times in which Longstreet joined Lee and Jackson.
By: Mort Kunstler
