For James Longstreet, the transfer to the Western Theater in 1863 offered opportunity. For his opponent Ambrose Burnside, the hope of redemption. Longstreet, wh

Lieutenant General James Longstreet's deployment to East Tennessee promised a chance to shine. Reassigned to the Western Theater because of sliding fortunes the

The Confederacy had a great opportunity to turn the Civil War in its favor in 1864, but squandered this chance when it failed to finish off a Union army cornere