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Suppose that James Longstreet died in 1866 or sometime around there from his injuries sustained at the Battle of the Wilderness and thus never goes on to become a Republican and to participate in the mini-civil war that was Reconstruction-era Louisiana. What would his role in the historiography of the alternate Civil War be? For that matter what would his early death do to the emerging Lost Cause and to the reputations of some generals who developed them much later on?