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January 27th, 2024 
Awake Goy 
His was a hit and miss record in battle, but he stood up and fought.
At Gettysburg many Southerners blame Longstreet for the defeat but this I feel is unfair.
Lee was not in the best of health and should have not been having the weight of the world on his shoulders, but there was simply no one else to take his place.
General “Jeb” Stuart was off doing a parade when he should have been scouting for the battle.
Longstreet fought bravely in many battles and it is my feeling a defeated South needed a scapegoat and Longstreet drew the short straw.
Lee became a kind of god to a defeated south and one can not place any blame on their god.
I loved Lee and it is not my thoughts to caste any blame on him.
It is just there were things beyond Lees control and things he had not a clear picture of at that battle through no fault of his own.
Longstreet was my cousin also, and he was filling in where I should have been, but I was already dead.
He was a true Southerner, and I believe Southerners wrongly lay the blame for a loss on him which can be seen as the turning point in the war which started the downhill fighting without much hope of winning for the South.
He served the South loyally and I believe he became the scape goat for things of which he had no control over.
We met again later in this life and were friends again.
He was a Viet Nam vet this time around.
As I died early in the war and Longstreet lived for some time afterwards, I squeezed another life in between then and this one and was younger than him this time around.
He was my fried this time around also.
Oh we bumped heads here and there on organizational things concerning the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Military order of the Stars and Bars, but we were friends.
He was in both lives, a true Son of the South and a Southern patriot.
The Ole Dog!
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