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Longstreet's Farewell To Arms Chapter 4

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Chapter four opens with Confederate men attempting to teach an English war-observer, named Arthur Fremantle, how to play poker. While this takes place, Longstreet sits underneath a tree, contemplating over where the Union’s troops were located. Longstreet’s aid, Sorrel, comes to inform Longstreet that a man named Pettigrew believes he had seen Union soldiers in Gettysburg, but that Robert E. Lee and others had dismissed this belief, stating that Pettigrew was most likely exaggerating. Longstreet is frustrated by this dismissal of a Union accusation. After this, General Pickett asks if his division could be moved towards the front of the army, but Longstreet forgoes this idea, stating that the army might need to flee, allowing Pickett’s men

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