A courageous fighter who took good care of his men, Longstreet was popular among his soldiers in the ranks, who knew him affectionately as "Old Pete." Longstreet's record should have secured for him a position or honor beside Lee and Jackson, but his post-war career was embroiled in controversy [and] Lee's defenders shifted blame for the defeat at Gettysburg to Longstreet, who became a social outcast in the South." -- From the book jacket.