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Title: High Tide by Helen Dortch Longstreet
Review: THE CRITICS HAVE IT ALL WRONG AS USUAL.There are many critics who have poo-pooed this work as just another book by a desperate wife trying to save (or restore) the slandered reputation of her husband, General James Longstreet.After the civil war, a cadre of unscrupulous low-level Confederate generals attacked the reputation of Gen. Longtreet in a effort to mask their own questionable civil war records or to enhance their own current reputations and that of Gen. Robert E. Lee. This book was Helen Longstreet's response to that attack.Keep in mind that at age 17, Helen Dortch was editoress of the Carnesville Tribune newspaper, in Carnesville, Georgia. As a newpaperwoman, she possessed all the investigative and writing skills necessary to cull facts from fiction. This is an excellent book in defense of her husband's reputation and was based on the Official Records. Unlike many others, she quoted from historical, not hysterical, facts.
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