Abstract
ABSTRACT In a remarkable political about-face, Confederate general James Longstreet embraced Congress’s Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and thereby became a pariah among unreconstructed white Southerners. Longstreet’s conversion launched him on a decades-long career as an influential Republican operative and iconoclastic critic of his own society. Historians have overlooked the most significant aspect of Longstreet’s postwar career: namely his alliances with Black politicians during Reconstruction. Those alliances reveal the depth of Longstreet’s commitment to the Republican party; the source of the white-hot animus against him on the part of conservatives; and the ultimate limits of white Southern Republicans’ tolerance for transformative change.
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